Duplicate receipt
A duplicate receipt.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1184
Duplicate receipt for an advance for clearing and burning brushwood TM 1184Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)21st December, 257 B.C.
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A receipt written out twice on the same sheet, recording that Amyles son of Harpekysis received an advance of 13 drachmas 2 obols for clearing cut brush from 20 arouras of land and the same sum for burning it. It belongs to the Zenon archive from Philadelphia in the Fayum, dated 21 December 257 BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 29, Phaophi 27. Amyles son of Harpekysis has received, for the clearing of the cut brushwood, a loan for 20 arouras at 4 obols each, making 13 drachmas 2 obols, and for the burning of these at 4 obols each, making 13 drachmas 2 obols.
[Year 29], Phaophi [27. Amyles son of Harpekysis has received, for the clearing of the] cut brushwood, a loan for 20 arouras at 4 obols each, making 13 drachmas 2 obols, and for the burning of these at 4 obols each, making 13 drachmas 2 obols.
[verso]
Phaophi 28.
Money matters.
The Greek kopas refers to cut or lopped vegetation to be cleared from land before cultivation. The verso docket, dated a day later, classifies the document under money matters.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Duplicate receipt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.zen.4.59549
[r] ἔτους κθ, Φαῶφι κζ. ἔχει Ἀμυλῆς Ἑρπεκύσιος εἰς κάθαρσιν τῆς κοπάδος δάνειον ἀρουρῶν κ ἀνὰ τετρώβολον γίνονται ιγ διώβολον καὶ εἰς ἐμπυρισμὸν τούτων ἀνὰ τετρώβολον γίνονται ιγ διώβολον ἔτους κθ, Φαῶφι κζ. ἔχει Ἀμυλῆς Ἑρπεκύσιος εἰς κάθαρσιν τῆς κοπάδος δάνειον ἀρουρῶν κ ἀνὰ τε…