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· H.I. Bell, Translations of the Greek Aphrodito Papyri (1911) 271
Concerning 1 skilled workman for the barges … In the name of God. Ḳurrah b. Sharīk, Governor, to Basil, administrator of the village of Aphrodito. We have apportioned to your administrative district 1 carpenter for 4 months for work at the barges which convey … to Clysma in the present 8th indiction, having fixed his wages and supplies at 2/3 solidus per month excluding …, to be paid from the Treasury, and having made out the demand note for him we have sent it to you. Send him, therefore, with his tools in accordance with the powers given by the demand note [immediately (?)], and hand him over to Muḥammad b. Abī Ḥabībah, who is in charge of the work. Written the 6th Thoth, 8th indiction.