Receipt January 24, 256 BC
Duplicate receipt for loan at 4 obols per aroura: money paid for cutting out brushwood and burning
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1744
Duplicate receipt for a loan for wood-cutting and burning on 3 arouras TM 1744Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)256 BCE
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A duplicate receipt recording that Herieus son of Herieus received an advance of money for cutting brushwood and burning it on 3 arouras of land, at 4 obols per aroura for each task, 2 drachmas each. It dates to Choiak 1 of year 29 (24 January 256 BC), probably at Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 29, Choiak 1. Herieus son of Herieus has, for wood-cutting of the cleared land (?), as a loan: 3 arouras at 4 obols each, total 2 drachmas; and for burning 3 arouras at 4 obols each, total 2 drachmas.
Year 29, Choiak 1. Herieus son of Herieus has, for wood-cutting of the cleared land (?), as a loan: 3 arouras at 4 obols each, total 2 drachmas; and for burning 3 arouras at 4 obols each, total 2 drachmas.
[verso]
The text is written twice on the same sheet, as was usual for duplicate receipts. The term "kopas" refers to land being cleared of brush, and the payment is called a "loan" (an advance on wages).
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.3.24
[r] ἔτους κθ, Χοιὰχ α. ἔχει Ἐριεὺς Ἐριέως εἰς ξυλοκοπίαν τῆς κοπάδος δάνειον ἀρουρῶν γ ἀνὰ τετρώβολον, γίνονται δραχμαὶ β, καὶ ἐνπυρισμὸν ἀρουρῶν γ ἀνὰ τετρώβολον, γίνονται δραχμαὶ β. ἔτους κθ, Χοιὰχ α. ἔχει Ἐριεὺς Ἐριέως εἰς ξυλοκοπίαν τῆς κοπάδος δάνειον ἀρουρῶν γ ἀνὰ τετρώβολο…