One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31503
Fragment of an estate account with expenses for wood-cutting and labour TM 31503Theadelphia (Arsinoites)III
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Fragment of an estate account from the Heroninos archive at Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, 3rd century AD. It records expenses for wood-cutting along dykes and channels, oil, payments to shore-guards over 31 days, and a bull-driver from Theoxenis.
In English machine translation
[… lines lost …]
according to custom, estate (ktema) of 4 arouras, Sambas […]
in place of which, in number […]
… estate according to custom 4 […]
and of them 4 arouras, after which he had […] likewise here other […]
for wood-cutting of the dyke (?) […]
because there is not with the … […]
likewise for wood-cutting of the inflow channel (?) […]
of the dyke (?) as far as the well […]
…inos inspected […]
for the same … […]
price of oil given […]
to two flute-players (?) who came to […]
thicket (?), men daily […]
for 31 days, to the shore-guards […]
to Achenes, bull-driver, from Theoxenis […]
who came for the splitting (?) … […]
… in number, 2 kotylai […]
Several readings are uncertain; 'probolos' probably refers to an embankment or dyke, and 'auloi' may mean flute-players or channels. Aigialophylakes were guards of the shore or newly exposed land at the lake edge.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Frammento di rendiconto dell’archivio di Heroninos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.laur.1.15
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