Receipt March 21, 256 BC
Duplicate receipt for loan at 4 obols per aroura: money paid to Nikias for weeding his own land
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1745
Duplicate receipt for money paid to Nikias for weeding his own land TM 1745Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)256 BCE
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A duplicate receipt recording that a man named Nikias received money for weeding his own land. It is dated Year 29, Tybi 26 (March 256 BC) and probably comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome; the verso notes the date and files it under money accounts.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 29, Tybi 26. Nikias has received for the weeding of his own land […] drachmas, 2 obols.
Year 29, Tybi 26. Nikias has received for the weeding of his own land … drachmas, 2 obols.
[verso]
Tybi 26.
Money accounts.
The sum in drachmas is lost; only the 2 obols survive. The catalogue describes the payment as a loan reckoned at 4 obols per aroura, and the APIS record gives the date as 21 March rather than 20 March 256 BC.
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.3.25
[r] ἔτους κθ, Τῦβι κϛ. ἔχει Νικίας τῆς ἑαυτοῦ γῆς εἰς βοτανισμὸν δραχμὰς[…]διώβολον. ἔτους κθ, Τῦβι κϛ. ἔχει Νικίας εἰς βοτανισμὸν τῆς ἑαυτοῦ γῆς δραχμὰς … διώβολον. [v] Τῦβι κϛ. ἀργυρικά.