Account of huntsmen's wages
An account of huntsmen's wages.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1372
Account of huntsmen's wages TM 1372Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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Account of payments in copper money to huntsmen, including Theophrastos, Ephesos, Pyrrhos, Xenon and Zoilos, for the months Pachon and Pauni. The back records daily barley rations for two draught animals. It comes from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid 3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…]
[…]
To Ephesos and those with him […]
and to Menites, 1 obol
To Theophrastos the huntsman, wages from Pachon 9 to […]
To Xenon, 1 drachma
To Zoilos, 1 drachma
Total 10; another 5 copper drachmas to Pyrrhos and Ephesos
To Xenon, 1 drachma
Total 11 copper drachmas 4 obols
⟦To Theophrastos, wages for Pauni⟧
To Inaros, 2 drachmas
To Pyros for Pauni, 2 drachmas 3 obols
To Ephesos likewise 2 (drachmas) 3 obols
For the hunting cow (?)
To Zoilos with Seartos, 1 drachma
[…]
To Xenon, 2 drachmas 3 obols; total 10 (drachmas) 3 obols
To Kyanos with Seartos, 1 drachma
[…]
[verso]
[…] from the 4th
[…] per day, 6 choinikes of barley
[…] for 2 draught animals at 3 choinikes each, total 6 choinikes
The phrase "boi thereutriai" literally means "for the hunting cow", perhaps a decoy animal used in hunting; its sense is uncertain. Pyrrhos is spelled both Pyrrhos and Pyros in the text.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of huntsmen’s wages). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.zen.4.59747
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