Farm account of labourers' work and wages TM 29016Oxyrhynchosspätes II

Fragment of a farm account listing workmen and donkeys employed on tasks such as carrying earth, digging and drawing water, with payments of wages, including to a vine-dresser named Ploution. It comes from Oxyrhynchus in the late 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

A naubion was a unit of volume for earthwork on dykes and canals. The payment 'for libation' (spondē) was a customary gratuity to workers, often in wine.

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