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A private letter from the 4th century AD, probably from the Arsinoite nome, written by a son to his father about workmen and their wages. The writer asks for wages to be sent, explains the service record of a workman from Arabon in a dispute involving one Asep and an overseer, and asks that money of Theodoros be sent by a trustworthy man rather than by Dios.
Talents here are units of the heavily inflated 4th-century money of account. The term rendered "relief shift" (allagē) refers to a rotation or replacement of workers; 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 Privatbrief). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r,1] […]τῷ πατρί μου χαίρειν [… 8 lines lost …] [r,2] καὶ ἀπόστειλον αὐτῶν τοὺς μισθοὺς μὴ πάλιν ὡς τὸ πρότερον. ἐδήλωσά σοι δὲ περὶ τῶν ὄντων ἐν ἡμῖν ἐργατῶν ὅτι ποίαν ἡμέραν ἀπήντησαν διὰ Δίου· μὴ θελήσῃ οὖν ὁ Ἁσὴπʼ εἰπεῖν ὅτι ἐγὼ ἀρκετοῦμαι ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἐργάτου τοῦ ἀπὸ Ἀράβων· αὐ…
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