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A labour contract in which Aurelius Menas, a shipwright of Oxyrhynchus, engages two shipwrights from Ptolemais in the Thebaid, Anoup and Victor, to work 45 days on a boat for wages in gold and food (bread, meat, oil and wine). It is dated 18 July 535 at Oxyrhynchus; the end of the text is lost.
The nomisma is the gold solidus; whether the stated wage and rations are per person for the whole period is implied by "each". The phrase about the "public" of the craft seems to protect the workers from claims of the shipwrights' guild or public obligations.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract with a Boat - Builder). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] † ὑπατείας Φλαουίου Βελισαρίου τοῦ ἐνδοξοτάτου […] Ἐπεὶφ κδ ἰνδικτίονος ιγ. Αὐρήλιος Μηνᾶς ναυπηγὸς υἱὸς Ἰούστου μητρὸς Ἡραϊδος ἀπὸ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν Αὐρηλίοις Ἀνοῦπ υἱῷ Φοιβάμμωνος καὶ Βίκτωρι υἱῷ Ἰωάννου ἀπὸ τῆς Πτολεμαίδος τῆς Θηβαίων ἐπαρχίας καὶ αὐτοῖς ναυπηγοῖς. ἐπειδὴ ἤρ…
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