Receipt February 17 256 BC
Duplicate receipt for wages at 2 and a half drachmas per aroura given for cutting wood
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1746
Duplicate receipt for wages for clearing old brushwood TM 1746Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)256 BCE
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A receipt written twice on the same papyrus for wages paid to a worker, Amo[…] son of Pekysis, for cutting old brushwood on 10 arouras of land at 2 1/2 drachmas per aroura, 25 drachmas in all. The second copy adds that the brushwood was also burned. It dates to 17 February 256 BC, probably at Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year 29, Choiak 25.
Amo[…] son of Pekysis has received for wood-cutting of old brushwood, 10 arouras at 2 drachmas 3 obols, total 25 drachmas.
Year 29, [Choiak] 25. Amo[…] son of [Pe]kysis has received for wood-cutting of old brushwood and burning, 10 arouras at 2 drachmas 3 obols, total 25 drachmas.
Year 29 is of Ptolemy II. The work described is land clearance: cutting and burning old scrub (hyle) to reclaim land for cultivation.
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 Wages at 2 1/2 Drachmas 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.3.27
ἔτους κθ, Χοιὰχ κε. ἔχει Αμω…[…]… Πεκύσιος εἰς ξυλοκοπίαν ὕλης παλαιᾶς ἀρουρῶν ι ἀνὰ δραχμὰς β τριώβολον γίνονται δραχμαὶ κε. ἔτους κθ, Χοιὰχ κε. ἔχει Αμω…[…]Πεκύσιος εἰς ξυλοκοπίαν ὕλης παλαιᾶς καὶ ἐνπυρισμὸν ἀρουρῶν ι ἀνὰ δραχμὰς β τριώβολον γίνονται δραχμαὶ κε.