Account
Account dealing with the days laborers (ergatai) have worked at various agricultural tasks; the many corrections show that this was only a draft
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31555
Daily work roster of estate labourers with list of tools TM 31555UnknownIIIrd century/IVth century A.D.
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A draft daily work record from an agricultural estate listing which labourers (Psik, Sisois, Koulas, Artemidoros, Phaesis the priest, Pousimis and others) worked on given days of Tybi and at what tasks, such as watering, splitting and sowing. It ends with a short list of tools and payments. From Roman or Late Roman Egypt, 3rd-4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
[… 5 lines lost …]
[…]k
[…] Pousimis
[…] Pol
[…] himself (?)
[…] and Pol
[…]
[…] and Artemidoros
[…] and Pol and Pousimis
[…] Artemidoros and
[…] Pousimis
[…]
[…] priest
[column 2]
Tybi 1
⟦24⟧ Psik and Sisois and Koulas, to split (shoots) (?), and Artemidoros and Phaesis the priest and Pousimis, total 6, watering a new plot.
⟦26⟧ 3: Psik and Sisois and Artemidoros and Phaesis the priest, total 4.
⟦29⟧ Psik and Sisois and Artemidoros, total 3.
⟦30⟧ Psik and Artemidoros, total 2, and Pol.
⟦Tybi⟧ 5: Psik and Artemidoros and Pol.
⟦5⟧ 6: Psik and Sisois and K… and Pol and Koulas, splitting (?).
7: Psik and Sisois and Koulas, splitting (?); Pousimis and Anoubion idle until […]
⟦after Ptole… 1⟧
8: all idle because of the rain […]
9: Psik and Artemidoros and Sisois […]
10: Psik and Artemidoros and Sisois and Koulas, splitting (?).
[…]
[column 3]
… 8 and … workers 9
…
In the moon-shaped plot (?): workers 4
[…] 9, of whom cleaning 4, levelling 1, sowing 2, … 2, total 9.
Pousimis has (?) …
…
[column 4]
…
Scrapers 3 …
another 1, 12 drachmas
another 1
Large sickle 1
⟦…⟧
Axe 1
24 …
For fodder, 8 drachmas
[…]
The many deleted day numbers show the scribe correcting dates in a draft. The verb hyposchizo, here rendered 'splitting', probably refers to a vineyard or orchard task such as splitting or trimming shoots, but its exact sense is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of Workmen and Objects). 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.mich.15.721
[1] [… 5 lines lost …] […]κ […]Πουσῖμις […] Πωλ […]…ς αὐτο […]ς καὶ Πωλ […]…τα […]ς καὶ Ἀρτεμίδωρος […] καὶ Πωλ καὶ Πουσῖμις […] Ἀρτεμίδωρος καὶ […]Πουσῖμις […]…ις […]ἱερεύς [2] Τῦβι α Ψικ καὶ Σισόις καὶ Κουλᾶς ὑποσχίσοντες καὶ Ἀρτεμίδωρος καὶ Φαῆσις ἱερεὺς καὶ Πουσῖμις γίνονται …