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Fragments of a farm account book recording payments and labour: workers carrying dung, a brickmaker firing bricks, and day-by-day use of pairs of cows for clod-breaking and sowing on the holding of Ameus son of Apollonios in the month Phamenoth. The verso carries a later daily account mentioning little baskets.
The papyrus was found in 1902 in cemetery rubbish, presumably at Hibeh. 'Idiosporia' denotes land sown privately by the estate rather than leased out; the verso hand is dated to the later 2nd century.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Agricultural Account Book). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
One large fragment, two smaller ones, and a score of scraps of an agricultural accounting book, in some ways analogous to the well-known farm accounts of Hermopolis. On the verso of the main frgment are 15 lines of a day-to-day account in a hand of the later second century A.D. …
[r] [… 7 lines lost …] […] καὶ τῶν ἐκφερόντων κόπρια παρὰ […] […]…ετῳ πλινθευτῇ εἰς τὴν ὄπτησιν πλίνθου [… 3 lines lost …] ὑπακαόντων τὴν συνθέτην εἰς τὴν ὄπτησιν πλίνθου [… 5 lines lost …] καὶ τῶν ἐργαζομένων […]την ἐν τῇ ἰδιοσπορίᾳ […] τοῦ Ἀμέως τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου κλήρου δειοβολοῦν…
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