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An order from Zoilos to Horion to pay 12 artabas of wheat each to the brickmaker Pammon and his partner Hatres, 24 artabas in all, as wages for building work. It was written in the Oxyrhynchite nome on 3 September 293, dated by the regnal years of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars.
The triple regnal year (10, 9 and 2) reflects the joint reign of Diocletian, Maximian and the two Caesars. The term synarsis, here rendered 'completion', probably refers to finishing the construction work, but its exact sense is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order for Payment 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.
[r] [… 22 lines lost …] [v] Ζωίλος Ὡρίωνι χαίρειν. δὸς Πάμμωνι πλινθευτῇ εἰς λόγον μισθοῦ ὧν ποιεῖται ἔργων ἄχρι συνάρσεως πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ιβ, γίνονται πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι ιβ, Ἁτρῇ ἑτέρῳ κοινωνῷ αὐτοῦ ὁμοίως πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ιβ, γίνονται πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι κδ, μέτρῳ ι. γείνονται ἀρτάβαι εἴκοσι τ…
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