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Account of labour expenses for lentil pulling and barley harvest TM 17704Hermopolites

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An account of daily expenditures on hired farm labour in the months Phamenoth and Pharmouthi, mainly for pulling lentils and harvesting barley on named estate holdings in the Hermopolite nome. Workers are paid 300 drachmas each per day, and a payment to the estate manager Tyrannos is also recorded.

In English machine translation

[1] Of which expenditures for Phamenoth: To Tyrannos, the phrontistes, for expenditures, talents […], 3,000 drachmas for the pulling of lentils in the holding of Tertonpetochnoubis, workers 13 1/2, at 300 drachmas per worker, total 4,050 drachmas 29, for the harvesting of barley in the holding of Poanpimenis, workers 5, 1,500 drachmas 30, likewise for the same holding, workers 7, at 300 drachmas each, total 2,100 drachmas Pharmouthi 1, likewise for the same holding, workers 6 […], 1,800 drachmas 2, likewise for the same holding, in silver 1,800 drachmas apart from Patchemis and Horos and Philippos 3, likewise for the same, workers … 7, 2,100 drachmas 4, likewise, workers 7, 2,100 drachmas 5, likewise, workers 4, 1,200 drachmas […] 37, so that there are more […] 300 drachmas, total 3,000 drachmas (?) 6, likewise, worker 1, total workers 46, 300 drachmas likewise for pulling in the holding of Sinape 30, workers 7, 2,100 drachmas 7, likewise, workers 9, 2,700 drachmas 8, likewise, workers 12, 3,600 drachmas 9, likewise, workers 4, 1,200 drachmas 10, likewise, workers […], […] drachmas … [2] [… 19 lines lost …] of the […] paterm[…] apoiz[…] and … of the price 7 […] instead of sixty workers […] as remaining further work 19, drachmas 3[…] apart from […] likewise […]

A phrontistes was an estate manager or steward. The high wage of 300 drachmas per worker reflects the inflated currency of late Roman Egypt.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ausgabenliste). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Hermopolites

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