One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20431

Engagement of services for festival days TM 20431Oxyrhynchos9 - 10

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Fragmentary contract of service (paramone) from Oxyrhynchus in which a person undertakes to serve employers on fixed days each month and at the festivals of Isis and of Hera, from year 39 to Thoth of year 40 of Augustus. It sets a yearly wage of 40 drachmas, extra pay for additional days, and a penalty for days of absence.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] and […] […] of the 39th year of Caesar until Thoth of the 40th year of Caesar, on condition that I shall serve you each month on the 9th and the 10th, and at the Isis festival for 2 days, and at the stars (festival) of Hera for 3 days; and on condition that, if you have need of me on an additional day, you shall give me 1 drachma 2 obols of silver; the wage being fixed at 40 silver drachmas for the year, on condition that you shall give me as allowance 13 silver drachmas 2 obols. For whatever day I […] am idle, I shall pay 1 silver drachma 2 obols. This agreement of service shall be valid wherever produced. Year 38 of Caesar […]

Paramone is a contract of service or attendance; the duties here seem tied to religious festivals. The opening, with the parties' names, is lost.'

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Engagement of Services). 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.oxy.4.731

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 9 - 10 · Oxyrhynchos

[… ? lines lost …] συμ[…]η καὶ ο[…] σιοις τοῦ ἐνάτου καὶ τριακοστοῦ ἔτους Καίσαρος μέχρι Θωὺθ τοῦ τεσσαρακοστοῦ ἔτους Καίσαρος ἐφʼ ᾧ λειτουργήσω ὑμῖν κατὰ μῆνα ἐνάτῃ καὶ δεκάτῃ καὶ Εἰσίοις ἡμέρας δύο καὶ τοῖς ἄστροις Ἥρας τρεῖς , καὶ ἐφʼ ᾧ ἐάν μου χρείαν ἔχητε παρʼ ἡμέραν δώσετέ …