Duplicate Receipt for Money Payment
Duplicate receipt given by Nechthembes, who appears to have been a small contractor employing a gang of men to prepare part of the estate for cultivation
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1520
Duplicate receipt for wages for levelling a vineyard TM 1520Philadelphia (Arsinoites)February 1, 256 B.C.
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A receipt written twice on the same sheet, recording that Nechthembes son of Horos of Heliopolis received, through Komoapis, payment for 20 workmen at one obol each for levelling a vineyard. It dates to 1 February 256 BC at Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year 29, Choiak 9. Nechthembes son of Horos, of Heliopolis, has received through Komoapis, for the levelling of the vineyard, for 20 workmen at 1 obol each, total 3 drachmas 2 obols.
Year 29, Choiak 9. Nechthembes son of Horos, of Heliopolis, has received through Komoapis, for the levelling of the vineyard, for 20 workmen at 1 obol each, total 3 drachmas 2 obols.
Twenty obols make 3 drachmas 2 obols at 6 obols to the drachma; the drachma sign is not written in the edition but is implied by the total. Nechthembes seems to have been a small contractor supplying a work gang for the estate.
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 for Money Payment). 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.lond.7.1957
ἔτους κθ, Χοίακ θ. ἔχει Νεχθεμβῆς Ὥρου Ἡλιοπολίτης διὰ Κομοάπιος εἰς ὁμαλισμὸν τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος εἰς ἐργάτας κ ἀνὰ ὀβολὸν γίνονται γ διώβολον. ἔτους κθ, Χοίαχ θ. ἔχει Νεχθεμβῆς Ὥρου Ἡλιοπολίτης διὰΚομοάπιοςεἰς ὁμαλισμὸν τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος εἰς ἐργάτας κ ἀνὰ ὀβολὸν γίνονται γ διώβολον.