One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28074

Farm work diary and letter about harvest near Karanis TM 28074ArsinoitesII

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A fragmentary day-by-day report of farm work near Karanis in the Arsinoite nome, listing workers such as Eutyches, Kerdon, Phaesis and Germanus drying, carrying sheaves, winnowing and harvesting barley. It ends as a letter to the landowner asking for instructions and a quick reply, from the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] we arrived from Alexandria at Karanis […] […] Eutyches to the east (district) to do the drying […] and he was idle, to prepare copper (money) for the […] […] likewise doing the same drying […] Eutyches with Sambas. […] Kerdon with Phaesis. […] the 2 with Phaesis. […] Eutyches was idle. […] inspected (?) […] […] Eutyches to the east (district) to inspect the sheaves […] to Kerkesoucha with Phaesis […] we were idle for human (?) […] vine (?) […] […] Eutyches and the weaver were carrying sheaves […] winnowed with Phaesis. […] we irrigated […] […] removing dog's-tooth grass near the threshing floor […] we are winnowing the threshing floor. […] the 2 and Germanus and Phaesis, we are winnowing […] near the threshing floor near the village […] until Epeiph 2 the 2 of us gathered in the barley […] carrying chaff […] […] Eutyches collects stubble from the same place […] with Phaesis carrying sheaves, 4th and 5th […] we likewise collected stubble […] […] and of another 1 1/2 arouras, total 6 1/2 arouras. From these there remained […] for threshing 2 1/4 artabas, the transport charges apart from the […] we gathered in; your slaves took from them […] they give me much trouble because we shall sell; the one for the public (dues) must […] until you write to me, unless quickly […] your mother receives, or you have someone take care of […] all of them, lest they themselves see to everything […] the reply quickly. But if not quickly […] mother, and send me a sheet of papyrus.

The repeated word 'koutibeu' is obscure and left untranslated. 'Psygmos' (drying) probably refers to drying of grain or a drying place.

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

bgu.3.698

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Arsinoites

[…]παρεγενόμεθα ἀπʼ Ἀλεξανδρείας εἰς Καρανίδα […]α… […]Εὐτυχὴς εἰς τὸν ἀπηλιώτην ποιῆσαι τὸν ψυγμόν […] καὶ ἤργησε ἑτοιμάσαι χαλκὸν εἰς τὰ ε[…]… […]… ὁμοίως τὸν αὐτὸν ψυγμὸν ποιοῦντες […]Εὐτυχὴς μετὰ Σαμβᾶτος. […] Κέρδων μετὰ Φαήσεως. […]οἱ β μετὰ Φαήσεως. […]Εὐτυχὴς ἤργησε. […]……