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An account of expenses for agricultural work on an allotment (kleros), listing payments to workmen, teams and boys for jobs such as raising dikes, cutting reeds and digging. It dates to Year 5 of Antoninus Pius (AD 141-142) and comes from Tebtynis in the Fayum.
A kleros was a plot of land originally allotted to a settler. The obol figures above 7 suggest a reckoning in which a drachma had more obols than the usual 6 (or copper obols).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Conto di spese per lavori agricoli). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
λόγος ἀνηλωμάτων ε ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ἐν κλήρῳ […] ἀναβάλλοντος διάζευγμα καὶ κατα…… γίνεται δραχμαὶ ιϛ ὀβολοὶ ι κοπῆς καλάμου καὶ συν…ησε ἐργάταις ϛ δραχμαὶ δ ὀβολοὶ ιγ ὑποσχίζοντες Ἀνκώλι ζεύγη ζ ἀνὰ δραχμὰς ϛ γίνεται δραχμαὶ μβ …………… ιβ ἀνὰ ὀβολοὺς ζ γίνεται δ…
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