Two copies of a request by an unnamed person in the Oxyrhynchite nome for payment of wages owed to stoneworkers who produced 202 stones over 14 days in Pharmouthi, at 12 denarii per stone, totalling 1 talent 940 denarii. The verso carries a list of abbreviated names marked as paid or not paid.
In English machine translation
[Fragment A, duplicate]
[recto]
[…]
and […]
[…]
[…]
[…] of the Oxyrhynchite [nome] […]
that the wages of the aforementioned craftsmen be given to me for the 14 days from Pharmouthi 15 to 28 of the same month; total, craftsmen having worked two hundred and two stones, makes 202 stones, at the rate of 12 denarii per stone per day. The sum of the money: one talent and nine hundred and forty denarii, makes 1 talent and [940] denarii.
The request is valid, and having been asked the formal question I assented.
Year [16] and year 15 and [year 8]
[verso]
…
[Fragment B, duplicate]
[recto]
[…] of the [Oxyrhyn]chite [nome]; […]
that the wages of the aforementioned craftsmen be given to me for the 14 days from Pharmouthi 15 to 28 of the same month; total, craftsmen having worked two hundred and two stones, makes 202 stones, at the rate of 12 denarii per stone per day. The sum of the money: one talent and nine hundred and forty denarii, makes 1 talent and 94 (?) denarii.
The request is valid, and having been asked the formal question I assented.
Year 16, year 15 and year [8]
[verso, column 1]
Aph[…]
Apho[…]
Thmout, paid
Theon, paid
Dioskoros, paid
Apol(…), paid
Tho(…), paid
Mouse(…), not paid
Ke(…), paid
Aphou(…), paid
Apol(…), paid
Soz(…), paid
Giou(…), paid
Teib(…), p(…)
Psai(…), paid
Phil(…), paid
22 Par(…), paid
Pasio(…), paid
Aphy(…), paid
Th…i, paid
Theon(…), paid
Art(…), paid
…ol(…), p(…)
[column 2]
Arte(…) […]
Dioskoros, paid
Mou(…) […]
Thon(…) […]
Apol(…), paid
Ke(…)
Psak(…), paid
Aphous, paid
Tei(…), not paid
Philo(…), not paid
Iou(…), paid
Soz(…)
Apol(…), not paid
The triple regnal date (years 16, 15 and 8) points to the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars, about AD 299/300. Fragment B writes the total as 94 denarii, apparently a scribal slip for 940.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Duplicate copies of a claim concerning stone - cutting). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.