Fragment of account of wages
A fragment of an account of wages paid to vine-dressers and their assistants.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1377
Account of wages in money and wheat for vineyard workers TM 1377Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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Fragment of an account of wages in money and wheat paid to vineyard workers, their assistants and boys. It names a vine-dresser in charge of a 100-aroura vineyard on sandy land to the south, and dates to the mid 3rd century BC, probably from Philadelphia in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
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to Miysis, Horos, […], Didymarchos, being 5, to each 2 drachmas 3 obols, total 12 drachmas 3 obols;
and of wheat to each 1 1/2 artabas, total 7 1/2 artabas.
To Andronikos, the one in the 100-aroura vineyard in the sandy land to the south, 12 drachmas,
12 artabas of wheat;
and to the assistants Nechtheminis, Techestheus, Inaros, Leukon, being 4, to each 2 drachmas 3 obols, total 10 drachmas;
and of wheat to each 1 1/2 artabas, total [6 artabas].
And to Komoapis, the one in the same vineyard, […] drachmas
[…]
[column 2]
[…]
[…]
to each 2 drachmas 3 obols […]
and of wheat to each 1 artaba […]
and to Antilochos […] vineyard […]
[…]
Kra[…]
to each […]
and of wheat […]
to Demetrios […]
of wheat […]
to the assistants […]
and to the boys […]
[…]
The 100-aroura vineyard is likely the large estate vineyard of Apollonios the dioiketes, run through his manager Zenon. The total of 10 drachmas for four workers at 2 drachmas 3 obols each is correct as written.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of account of 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.
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