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An account of small payments, mostly wages to workers such as cutters and weeders, but also to a dancer, a piper and a tax-collector, and purchases of a jar, vegetables, bread, figs and nuts. A second column lists names and the back preserves further sums. It dates to the mid-3rd century BC, probably from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
A kinaidos was a professional effeminate dancer or entertainer; the payments to him and a piper suggest a festivity alongside farm work. One record gives the date as "261 CE – 229 CE", evidently an error for 261–229 BC.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Expenses for Farm Work). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
On the front there is an account of wages paid to workers and money spent for various things; a second and very fragmentary col. preserves names, some of which have been checked off; on the back there are the faded remains of another account
[r,1] [… ? lines lost …] […]…[…]…[…]… κιναίδωι ἱλαρῶι δραχμαὶ γ τετρώβολον ἐργάταις τοῖς τομεῦσι κδ ϛ ἐργάτηι βοτανίζοντι αη … τριώβολον χαλκοῦς 1 εἰς κερμάτιον τοῦ αὐλητοῦ τέταρτον ὀβολοῦ προσκεφαλαίου πλύτρα τέταρτον ὀβολοῦ σπυρίδες εἰς ἣν οἱ ἧλοι τέταρτον ὀβολοῦ τελώνωι τριώβο…
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