Contract in which two potters, a son of Gerontios and Viktor son of Philoxenos, hire out their labour at a pottery workshop to a woman of high rank until the end of the coming second indiction year. They are to receive 10 gold solidi in instalments plus a customary allowance of pitched jars and jugs. From the Arsinoite nome, late 6th to early 7th century.
In English machine translation
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[...] of the pottery workshop (for light jars) [...] from now until the epagomenal days of the coming second indiction, blamelessly and without negligence, and that we receive from her as our wage 10 gold solidi, as current, of which we have already received from her now 4 gold solidi, and in the month Tybi 2 solidi, and in the month Pharmouthi 2 solidi, and in the month Epeiph the remaining solidi; and that each of us receive as customary allowance [...]ty new light jars, satisfactory and pitched, and 17 jugs (stamnoi).
The lease is valid, and having been asked the formal question we have agreed. †
...l..., son of Gerontios, elder, and Viktor, son of Philoxenos, potters of light jars, the aforementioned: it is satisfactory to us as aforesaid †.
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† Written through me, Viktor.
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[Lease (of services) made by] [...] son of Gerontios, elder, and Viktor son of Philoxenos, potters of light jars, to the most illustrious ...[...]
The kouphokeramourgoi made light, thin-walled ceramic jars (koupha), commonly used for wine. The abbreviation chmg is the Christian symbol usually read as a cryptogram, and the Latin-script subscription is Greek written in Latin letters.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Work Contract of Two Potters). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.