One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1473
Receipt for mattocks issued to a builder by Zenon's agent Apollodoros TM 1473Philadelphia3rd century BC
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A receipt, preserved in two copies, in which a builder whose name is lost acknowledges receiving 10 mattocks weighing 37 minas from Apollodoros, an agent of Zenon. It belongs to the Zenon archive from Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid-3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[Fragment A]
[Year …, ] Epeiph. […], builder, acknowledges that he has received from Apollodoros, the agent of Zenon, 10 mattocks weighing [37 minas]. […]
[Fragment B]
[Year …, ] Epeiph. […], builder, acknowledges that he has received from Apollodoros, the agent of Zenon, 10 mattocks weighing [… minas] 37.
The two fragments carry duplicate texts of the same receipt, and the weight in Fragment A is restored from Fragment B. The Greek term skapheia means digging tools, here rendered as mattocks.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for mattocks). 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.5.59849
[FrA] ἔτους[…], Ἐπείφ. ὁμολογεῖ ἔχειν […]οἰκοδόμος παρὰ Ἀπολλοδώρου τοῦ παρὰ Ζήνωνος σκαφεῖα ι ἄγοντα μνᾶς λζ.[…] [FrB] ἔτους[…], Ἐπείφ. ὁμολογεῖ ἔχειν […]οἰκοδόμος παρὰ Ἀπολλοδώρου τοῦ παρὰ Ζήνωνος σκαφεῖα ι ἄγοντα μνᾶς[…]λζ.