Fragment of building account
A fragment of a building account. The materials mentioned, sand, pebbles, clay and rubble, may have been intended for a concrete pavement.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1386
Fragment of a building account with wages for workmen and plasterers TM 1386Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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A fragment of a building account listing daily wages paid to workmen who brought and sifted sand, sifted pebbles, brought earth and rubble, and to plasterers. It comes from Philadelphia in the Fayum, from the mid 3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[… ? lines lost …]
per day […] 10 drachmas
to the workmen bringing up the sand and sifting it, 6, wages 1 drachma 3 obols
and to those sifting the pebbles, 2, 3 obols
and to those bringing up the earth and the rubble, being 4, 1 drachma
to the plasterers 10 drachmas
total 35 drachmas 1 obol
⟦57 drachmas 1 1/2 obols, 37 drachmas […] 7 choinikes.⟧
[verso]
[… ? lines lost …]
3 (?) drachmas […]
7 drachmas, total 199 drachmas 2 1/2 obols
The materials (sand, pebbles, earth, rubble) may have been for a concrete or plastered pavement. A line of figures at the end of the recto was crossed out by the scribe.
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.4.59761
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