Fragment of an agricultural account for labour and donkey transport TM 27455Oxyrhynchos (?)II

Fragment of an agricultural estate account recording labour costs for workers and donkeys carrying hay, fodder seed and other loads, with wages per man, and the hire of grape-pickers in the month Mesore. It probably comes from Oxyrhynchus in the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

The heliasterion was a sun-drying floor, here probably for grapes or produce of the vineyard estate. The total in the last line is corrected in the text and its exact figure is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment einer landwirtschaftlichen Abrechnung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.