Estate accounts from Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid-3rd century BC, with payment orders addressed to Artemidoros for wages of workers and boys weeding wheat, flax and castor, preparing land for chickpeas and poppy, and planting olives and a grove. The verso records monthly wheat rations to named workers and fodder allowances for draught animals, camels and horses.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[Fragment 1]
Choiak […].
To Artemidoros. Pay to Kerkion for the boys weeding the wheat in the first dike-enclosure to the north, being 30, 2 drachmas 3 obols. To Pasis for those weeding the flax likewise, 2 drachmas 3 obols.
To Labos for those pre-cleaning (the ground) for the chickpeas in the second dike-enclosure, being 15, 1 drachma 5 obols 2 chalkoi. To Peteminis for the boys weeding the castor-oil plant, being 30, 2 drachmas 3 obols. To Andronikos for those planting the olives, being 10, 1 drachma 1 1/2 obols. To Hermogenes for those planting the grove, being 10, 1 drachma 1 1/2 obols. To Onnophris for those pre-cleaning for the poppy, being 10, 1 drachma 1 1/2 obols
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[…] measure out to Pemnas the swineherd for the sacrificial animals being fattened […] Choiak […] total 45 artabas, and for the […]
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[Fragment 2]
To Artemidoros. Pay […]
Aphrodit[…]
30 talents, at the rate of the talent […]
To Artemidoros. Pay […]
of those bringing up plants […]
[verso]
[Fragment 1, column 1]
[…]
[…] Phaophi
[…] 2 artabas
[…] 1 1/2
[…]
[…] 1 1/2
[…] 1 1/2
[…] 1 1/2
[…] 1 1/2
[…] 1 1/2
[…] 1 1/2
[…] 1 1/2
[…] 1 1/2
[…] 1 1/2
[…] 1 1/2
[…] 1 1/2
[…] to the farmers
[…] 1 1/2
[…] to Kerkion, wheat, 2 artabas
[…]
[…] 1 1/2
[…]
[Fragment 1, column 2]
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[deleted: To D…] 1 1/2, Hathyr
Ph(aophi) To Nechthosiris 1 1/2, Hathyr
Ph(aophi) To Krates 1 1/2, Hathyr
Ph(aophi) To Agathon 1 1/2, Hathyr
[deleted: To Phatres]
Hathyr, Ph(aophi) To Dionysios the planter, for Phaophi 2 artabas
Hathyr, Ph(aophi) To Orsenouphis 1 1/2, total 2
Hathyr, Ph(aophi) [deleted: To Apollonios 1 1/2]
To Demetrios, the man at the irrigation machine, Phaophi 2 artabas
and to the boy with him 1/2 1/4
total 2
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[Fragment 1, column 3]
Hathyr. To Herakleides, the man in the orchard, and his son Ptolemaios, 3 artabas
total 2
[Fragment 1, column 4]
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Phaophi To Nikias […]
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and grain for two months
Phaophi To Metha[…]
Ph(aophi) To Styrax […]
Para[…]
To Totoes […]
Apol[…]
Prot[…]
Am[…]
To Ptolemaios […]
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[Fragment 2, column 1]
[…] to Artemidoros the […], wheat 5 artabas, Phaophi 6 artabas, Hathyr 6 artabas
[…] 4 artabas, Choiak 8 artabas
[…] to the donkey-driver, wheat 2 artabas
[…]lphos, wheat 1 1/2
[…] to Eponychos and
[…] for the […]
[…] wheat 2 artabas
[Fragment 2, column 2]
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Phaophi 6 for […]
of the day […]
for draught animals […] at 2 choinikes each
for saddle animals […] at 4 choinikes each […]
for the […]
for the […] foal at […]
for camels […]
for horses […] 5 at 8 choinikes each […]
and for the […]
[…] in the […]
through […] 4 choinikes […]
from the 15th […]
to the prisoners […]
the earth for […]
we assigned […]
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and from the 16th to […]
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The documents likely belong to the Zenon archive concerning the estate of Apollonios the dioiketes. A 'perichoma' is a dike-enclosed basin of farmland; a choinix is a small dry measure, a fraction of an artaba.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.