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Fragment of a daily account of wages and materials for building work, listing pitch, bricks, oil, and payments to builders, contractors' assistants and lead-workers repairing pipes and pillars. It probably dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD.
The work, involving pipes, pans and a vault, may relate to a bath building. The word read as 'pans' (tēgana) may refer to heating vessels.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Aufstellung von Löhnen und Materialien). 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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