Receipt January 7, 256 BC
Duplicate receipt for loan at 4 obols per aroura: money paid for cutting out brushwood
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1742
Duplicate receipt for payment for clearing brushwood on 5 arouras TM 1742Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)256 BCE
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A duplicate receipt, written twice on the same sheet, recording that Erieus son of Paroitos received 3 drachmas 2 obols, at 4 obols per aroura, for wood-cutting or clearing brushwood on 5 arouras. It dates to 7 January 256 BC, probably from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, and the verso is docketed as a money account.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 29, Hathyr 14. Erieus son of Paroitos, from Troia (?), has received for the clearing of brushwood (?) of 5 arouras, at 4 obols each, 3 drachmas 2 obols.
Year 29, Hathyr 14. Erieus son of Paroitos, from Troia (?), has received for the clearing of brushwood (?) of 5 arouras, at 4 obols each, three drachmas two obols.
[verso]
Hathyr 14.
Money accounts.
The Greek phrase eis xylokopian tes kopados refers to cutting wood or clearing scrub from land, and the exact sense of kopas is uncertain. The catalogue describes the payment as a loan at 4 obols per aroura. Troites probably means a man from Troia (?), a village name.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Duplicate Receipts for Wages and for Loans. For Loan at 4 Obols per Aroura). 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.col.3.22
[r] ἔτους κθ, Ἁθὺρ ιδ. ἔχει Ἐριεὺς Παροίτου Τρωίτης εἰς ξυλοκοπίαν τῆς κοπάδος ἀρουρῶν ε ἀνὰ τετρώβολον δραχμὰς γ διώβολον ἔτους κθ, Ἁθὺρ ιδ. ἔχει Ἐριεὺς Παροίτου Τρωίτης εἰς ξυλοκοπίαν τῆς κοπάδος ἀρουρῶν ε ἀνὰ τετρώβολον δραχμὰς τρεῖς δυοβόλους . [v] Ἁθὺρ ιδ. ἀργυρικά.