Contract
Fragment of a contract concerning the terms on which a contractor undertakes to hoe the soil of a vineyard, preparing it for the operations of Artemidoros the vine-dresser
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1962
Contract for digging a vineyard for the vine-dresser Artemidoros TM 1962Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt247 B.C.
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Fragment of a contract from Philadelphia in the Fayum, 247 BC, involving the village scribe Anositos, the sitologos Herakleides and the vine-dresser Artemidoros. A contractor undertakes to have workers dig a vineyard on sandy land within two months for a wage per aroura plus a contractor's fee, supervising the work and gathering the labourers.
In English machine translation
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[Anositos] the village scribe and Herakleides
[the sitologos] and Artemidoros the vine-dresser,
[in accordance with] the letter from Herakleides, [to the] contractor
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[…] those who will dig in the
[…in the] sandy land (?) … the 39th year,
[who will] work the dug land (?)
[within] 2 [months] and will show
[…] and to Artemidoros
the vine-dresser and to the wine-makers […]
[…] per aroura as wage 1 drachma (?) 2 obols
[and] the contractor's fee, on condition that he will supervise the
[work] and the grain
[…] and will gather the workers,
[of wheat] 29 1/2 1/4 1/8 (artabas); of bronze 41 1/2 (drachmas)
The year 39 refers to the reign of Ptolemy II. The sitologos was the official in charge of the state granaries; the wage partly in wheat and partly in bronze money is recorded at the end.
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 a Contract). 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.mich.1.62
[… ? lines lost …] Ἀνόσιτος κωμογραμματέως καὶ Ἡρακλείδου σιτολόγου καὶ Ἀρτεμιδώρου ἀμπελουργοῦ κατὰ τὴν παρὰ Ἡρακλείδου ἐπιστολὴν τῶι ἐργολάβωι [… 1 line lost …] […] τοὺς σκάψοντας ἐν τῶι ἐν τῆι ὑφάμμωι … τὸ λθ ἔτος οἳ ἐργῶνται τὸν σκαφητὸν ἐν μησὶν β καὶ παραδείξουσι […]…ον καὶ…