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A receipt in the form of a private note in which a shipbuilder acknowledges payment in full from two joint owners for the wages of himself and his fellow shipwrights, and for the customary extra payments, for building a Greek-type boat of about 200 artabas capacity at the anchorage of Antinoopolis. It gives the boat's dimensions and renounces further claims, ending with the builder's signed subscription.
"Libations" (spondai) were customary bonus payments in kind or money added to wages. The boat was built at Antinoopolis although the papyrus is attributed to Philadelphia.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung über Bezahlung für einen Schiffsbau, in Form eines Handscheins). 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 …] χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἀπεσχηκέναι παρʼ ὑμῶν τοὺς[…]μισθοὺς τῆς ναυπηγικῆς ἐργασίας καὶ τῶν σὺν ἐμοὶ ἐργαζομένων ναυπηγῶν καὶ τὰς σπονδὰς καὶ πάντα ἁπαξαπλῶς τὰ διαφέροντα τῇ ναυπηγικῇ ἢ ἐργασίᾳ πλήρη, οὗ κατεσκεύασα ὑμῖν ἀμφοτέροις κοινῶς ἐξ ἴσου κατὰ τὸ ἥμισυ ἐφʼ ὅ…
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