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Account of payments for canal work and wages of guards at Philadelphia TM 940Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)250 B.C.

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An account of payments from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, about 250 BC. It lists costs for clearing canals of brushwood and repairing breaches, wages for village guards and Arabs, prison guards and dyke-watchmen, and payments to stonecutters.

In English machine translation

[Column 1] […] […] […] the clearing of brushwood […] […] canal and for […] […] at the rate of […], total 154 drachmas Total for works 522 drachmas and there are 500 (?) [And] for Andron, for the guards in Philadelphia and the 10 Arabs, wages from Mecheir of year 35 to Tybi, 12 months, for each per month, with grain allowance, 6 drachmas, total in copper 1 talent 1,440 drachmas [And for] Jason, for those posted at the prison in Philadelphia, being 5, for the same period, at [6 drachmas] a month, 360 drachmas [And] for Jason, for 6 dyke-guards posted for the maintenance of the dykes from Pauni to [Phaophi, 5 months, for each] per month 2 drachmas 3 obols, total 75 drachmas [Column 2] […] in Krokodilopolis [for the] clearing of brushwood of the canals [around] Philadelphia and of the breaches […] and for Andron [for the wages of the] guards and the [10] Arabs [from Mecheir] of year 35 to Tybi […] and for Jason for [those posted at the] prison, being [5, for the same] period […] and for dyke-guards […] from Pauni to Epeiph, [2] months […] and for Herieus the stonecutter […] of the (statues?) set up […] of the Samothracian gods and Philadelphos, for a libation […] and to those who cut stone [in the] prison […] and for Petos […] above the prison […] for [the same] […]

Year 35 is of Ptolemy II Philadelphos; the totals in column 1 imply 20 men paid 6 drachmas a month. The column 2 reference to the Samothracian gods and Philadelphos relies on partly restored text.

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.

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Account of payments

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE48744 · 250 B.C. · Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

An account of payments, partly for repairing of canals and stone cutting, and partly for guards. Of these, three classes are specified: ten village guards of Philadelphia together with ten Arabs; five guards posted in the prison; six watchmen to look six watchmen to look after t…

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p.cair.zen.2.59296

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Arsinoites

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