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Account of agricultural work and workmen's wages TM 29233unbekanntII

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An account of daily agricultural labour and wages, listing workmen employed for clearing land, building and operating water-lifting equipment, levelling, manuring and watering a new plot, mostly at 1 drachma per man per day. It dates to the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

Clearing dry land (?): 9 workmen, 9 drachmas; pruning (?) […] For building of the water-lifting device (?): 2 workmen, 2 drachmas; for pouring off (?) 1 drachma […] For building: 1 drachma 4 obols; 6 workmen at 1 drachma each […] Drawing water and watering (?) the new plot: 3 workmen, 3 drachmas […] Total 26 drachmas. 20th: clearing out and levelling, 1 workman at 1 drachma 4 obols; 6 workmen at 1 drachma each. 21st: scattering manure and watering (?), 1 workman, 1 drachma; watering (?), 3 other workmen, 3 drachmas. Total 7 drachmas 4 obols. Total 28 drachmas 3 obols; and for drawing water on the new plot, 21st-22nd: 6 workmen, 6 drachmas; and from the 23rd to the 24th, manuring: 15 workmen, 15 drachmas; 28th, the new plot: 3 workmen, 3 drachmas. Total 18 drachmas. Total 52 drachmas 3 obols; up to the 28th and 29th.

The abbreviation 'andē' is unexplained and is tentatively rendered as watering; several abbreviated tasks are uncertain. The numbers 20-29 appear to be days of the month.

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

DDbDP-text Full record →

bgu.13.2354

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

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