Receipt
Duplicate receipt for loan at 4 obols per aroura: money paid for cutting out brushwood
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1743
Duplicate receipt for a loan for clearing brushwood TM 1743Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)January 10, 256 BC
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A duplicate receipt recording that Patis son of Païs received an advance of 6 drachmas 4 obols, calculated at 4 obols per aroura for 10 arouras, for clearing brushwood. It dates to year 29 (of Ptolemy II), 10 January 256 BC, probably from Philadelphia in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[Year 29, Hathyr] 17. Patis son of Païs has received for the cutting of wood of the cleared land (?) a loan for 10 arouras at 4 obols (each), total 6 (drachmas) 4 obols.
[Year] 29, Hathyr 17. Patis son of Païs has received for the cutting of wood of the cleared land (?) a loan for 10 arouras at 4 obols (each), total 6 (drachmas) 4 obols.
[verso]
The text is written twice, an upper copy (partly restored) and a lower copy. The term kopas refers to land being cleared of brush or wood, rendered here loosely as 'cleared land'.
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.3.23
[r] ἔτους κθ, Ἁθὺριζ. ἔχει Πάτις Πάιτος εἰς ξυλοκοπίαν τῆς κοπάδος δάνειον ἀρουρῶν ι ἀνὰ τετρώβολον γίνονται ϛ τετρώβολον ἔτους κθ, Ἁθὺρ ιζ. ἔχει Πάτις Πάιτος εἰς ξυλοκοπίαν τῆς κοπάδος δάνειον ἀρουρῶν ι ἀνὰ τετρώβολον γίνονται ϛ τετρώβολον [v]