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Fragment of an agreement concerning two wooden irrigation machines TM 37349Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)VI

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End of a sixth-century contract (homologia) from Aphrodito in which the parties undertake obligations concerning two wooden irrigation machines, including rebuilding them with their own timber if destroyed and transporting a delivery to the village river harbour. It closes with the parties' subscriptions, including Aurelius Menas son of Phoibammon, and three witnesses.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] lest ever […] part, after the [repair (?)] of the two machines […] [in a complete and] […] unirrigated (state), which may it not happen, for the closing (of dykes?) […] identical […] only […] in the records of our common […] the two wooden machines having been destroyed […] to construct with my own timber […] from the landowner's and the cultivator's (share) […] [and the transport] […] I will make of the delivery as far as the river harbour […] of our village […] [cheeses] fifty and leftovers (?) cut short (?) […] [and] having been asked the formal question, we agreed. ☧ ☧ Aurelius […] [the aforesaid] I made this agreement, and everything written in it satisfies me. ☧ […] Aurelius Menas son of Phoibammon, grandson of Psimanobet, [the aforesaid, I made] this agreement and everything written in it satisfies me. ☧ I, Flavius Paulus son of Ioannes, witness the agreement, having heard it from those who made it. ☧ † I, Aurelius Promaus son of Hermauos, witness the agreement, having heard it from those who made it. † […] I witness the agreement, having heard it from those who made it. † Through me […]

The organa are wooden water-lifting machines, probably saqiyas, used for irrigating land; 'unirrigated' (abrochos) refers to land not reached by the Nile flood.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of contract (ὁμολογία) concerning, inter alia, two wooden machines (ὄργανα)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

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