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A daily work journal kept by an estate bailiff, recording for successive days of the month Mecheir the use of hired donkeys and workers to carry dung in baskets to a vineyard on the estate, with the wages paid. It dates to the 2nd century AD and comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.
"Oxyrhynch" in line 4 is abbreviated and may refer to the village Oxyrhyncha or to the city. The verb rendered "carry baskets" (kophorousi) refers to carrying loads in baskets (kophinoi).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bailiff’s Journal). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] Μεχεὶρ α ἀνέβην[…] μεστὰ …λων πρὸς κόπρου ελκα…ον νομικ[…] β ὄνοι τρεῖς Ὀξυρυγχ μετὰ Παθῶτος πολλ ἀπὸ γ μέχρι ι μεταφέρουσι κόπρον εἰς τὴν ἀμπελῶνα νοτιν…[…]…δ ἡμερῶν θ ια κοφοροῦσι ἐπὶ μισθῷ …[…] ιβ ὁμοίως τὸ αὐτὸ ποιοῦσι δραχμαὶ … ιγ ὁμοίως τὸ αὐτὸ ποιοῦσι δρ…
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