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Fragments of an account of wages paid to agricultural day-labourers, listing numbers of workers by task (grape-harvesting, reaping, clod-breaking, cutting) and day, with sums in drachmas and obols. It comes from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome and dates to the 2nd century AD.
The numbers at the start of lines in column 3 are probably days of a month. The arithmetic of the reaping wages (11 workers at 7 obols) does not match the stated subtotal straightforwardly as printed.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Conto di paghe di lavoratori). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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