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Fragmentary private letter about farm labour at harvest time: the writer has hired a substitute worker for Heraklas for two days while waiting for guarantors to release the sheaves, and reports the rate of 2 drachmas 3 obols per aroura for harvesters paid by area. It dates to the 1st century AD, probably from the Oxyrhynchite nome.
The beginning is lost and the first surviving line is barely legible. The word ankalai (literally 'armfuls') probably refers to bundles of harvested grain; the verso carries only the date Pachon 12.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Privatbrief). 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] [… ? lines lost …] σουτασ…ξαστ…κωι λυθη αὐτούς· γίγνωσκε δὲ ὅτι ἕστακα πρὸς μισθὸν ἕνα ἀντὶ Ἡρακλᾶτος πρὸς ἡμέρας δύο , ἕως πευσώμεθα ἐὰν οἵπερ ἐγγυηταὶ λύσωσιν τὰς ἀνκάλας ἡμῶν· περὶ δὲ τῶν θεριστῶν γίγνωσκε ὅτι ἐὰν πρὸς μισθὸν αὐτοὺς θερίσωσιν αλ… πρὸς ἀρουρισμὸν θερίζουσιν…
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