Contract for Work
Small fragment of a contract (mutual agreement) according to which a freedman would apparently work in a factory owned by a certain Kyrillos for the a specified period of time, at a daily wage of 500 drachmai.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 33528
Labour contract of a freedman for work in a workshop TM 33528perhaps Arsinoiton polis, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Early) IVth century A.D.
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
Fragment of a mutual agreement from early 4th-century AD Egypt in which a freedman engages to work in the workshop of a man named […]rates son of Kyrillos for a fixed period, apparently at a daily wage of 500 drachmas. An advance of 36,000 (drachmas?) seems to be paid by hand.
In English machine translation
[…] agreed with one another, […]rates son of Kyrillos, registered in the quarter of the Bithynians and Other Places […]
and of the Sakaeans (?), freedman […]
registered in the quarter […]
work, on condition that he himself […]
and work with him […]
as stated above, workshop […]
five, from the sixth day before the Kalends […]
of the year, he receiving […]
as wages for each day he works […]
500 […] from now […]
of […]rates son of Kyrillos, from hand to hand […]
36,000 (?) […]
when the period is completed […]
of Kyrillos without delay […]
[…] to each of them […]
[…] of the period […]
[…] and to him […]
The provenance is given as Karanis in one record but perhaps the city of Arsinoe in another; the quarter names (Bithynians, Other Places) point to the metropolis. The figure in line 13 begins 'thirty-six thousand' but the number is incomplete and the unit is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract for Work). 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.9.574
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