Account of payments.
An account of payments in drachmae for stone masons, painters, plumbers, and other workmen along the Nile; followed by a writing exercise (in a different hand, in opposite direction).
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 62953
Account of materials and wages for building workmen TM 629532nd or 3rd A.D.
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A Latin account of expenses for a building or decoration project, listing materials such as firewood, reeds, lead and pitch, and wages for carpenters, stonemasons, mosaicists, painters, lead-workers, porters and guards. The back carries a fragmentary writing exercise in another hand. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
[Fragment B, recto]
[…] […]
For vessels and pipes […]
[…]
Firewood, by weight 2 talents, 8 drachmas
Greek reeds, by weight 6 talents, 23 drachmas, 5 asses
For oil and potters […] 4 (asses)
For rags […] 4 (asses)
Liquid pitch […]
Lead […] 20 minas
[…] by weight 2 talents, 50 minas
For the rubble (?) […]
[…] 40 drachmas
For transport […] 10 drachmas
For guarding […]
[Fragment A, recto]
[…] 2 […]
[…]
Oil, 1 drachma
[…] 100 clods, 20 drachmas […]
[…] 1 drachma […]
[…] for firing […] drachmas […]
[…]
[…] to 3 porters, 5 drachmas, 6 1/4 asses
[…] Mareotic […] 3 drachmas, 6 asses
[…]
[…] to 4 porters, 7 drachmas, 6 asses
[…] Dacian […]
[…]
To 6 bronzesmiths (?), 18 drachmas
To 4 stonemasons working with small picks, 7 drachmas, 6 asses
To 16 carpenters, 29 drachmas, 1 as
For gluing […] 4 pairs (?), 10 drachmas, 2 asses
To 6 mosaicists, 13 drachmas, 5 asses
To 6 painters, 10 drachmas, 1/2 as
[…] 5 (?) drachmas, 1/2 as
[…] 3 veterans, 6 drachmas, 1 as
[…] 4, 7 drachmas, […] asses
[…] 11 drachmas, 3 asses
For oil and lamps, 2 drachmas
Timber (?), by weight 1 mina, 2 drachmas
Guards, 6
For vessels and pipes, 2 drachmas
To 7 lead-workers, 10 drachmas, 5 1/4 asses
Firewood, by weight 2 talents, 8 drachmas
Rags […] minas […] 4 (asses)
Oil […]
Liquid pitch […]
[Fragment B, verso]
[…] we contributed, or that she herself should now grant us leave to rest as she ought
nor […] than with duties […] that you, Fenetus (?)
[…] at all times […] pure […] gem […]
Sums are reckoned in drachmas and asses, a mix of Greek and Roman units. The verso text is a separate writing exercise and its sense is very uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of payments.). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
chla.5.304
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