Fragment of building account
A fragment of a building account. On the verso, in a different hand, is a list of quantities of various sorts of seed, with a dot (mark of checking) above each number.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1385
Fragment of a building account, with a list of seeds on the back TM 1385Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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Fragment of a building account from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia, mid 3rd century BC, recording wages for rubble and stone work with a deduction for work done by self-employed workers through Pasis. On the back, in another hand, is a list of quantities of various seeds such as radish, castor, cress, poppy and coriander.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…] the wage for the rubble (?)
[…] 125 stones, 68 drachmas 5 obols
Total 284 drachmas, from which is deducted
[…] the share of the self-employed workers, that through
[…] Pasis, 17 drachmas 2 obols
Remainder 266 drachmas 4 obols
[… 2 lines lost …]
[verso]
[… lines lost …]
of chickling (?) […]
of radish … 1/2
of castor 15, 6, 6
of cress 9 1/2, 133 […]
of black poppy 38 […]
of white (poppy) 18, 6 choinikes
of radish 44, 12
of black cumin 1, 4, 8
of coriander 46, 6
[… lines lost …]
The 'autourgoi' were workers labouring on their own account rather than as hired hands. The verso numbers each carry a dot marking that they were checked; the units of most seed quantities are not stated.
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 building account). 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.4.59760
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