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Beginning of a one-year labour agreement drawn up at Oxyrhynchus on 3 March 557, in which Flavius Ioannes, a tow-beater, contracts with Aurelius Psees, a fellow tow-worker, for work starting in Choiak of the next indiction. The terms of the agreement are lost.
Tow-workers (stippokonchistai, stippocheiristai) prepared flax fibre (tow); the precise difference between the two terms is uncertain. The era years in line 13 are restored by the editor.
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 Tow - workers). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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