Receipt
Duplicate receipt for wages at 2 and a half drachmas per aroura given for cutting wood
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1747
Duplicate receipt for wages for wood-cutting on 3 arouras TM 1747Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)March 4, 256 BC
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A duplicate receipt recording that Archibios was paid 7 drachmas 3 obols for clearing wood on 3 arouras of land, at a rate of 2 1/2 drachmas per aroura. It dates to 4 March 256 BC and probably comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year 29, Tybi 10. Archibios has received for wood-cutting on 3 arouras 7 drachmas 3 obols.
[Year 29, Tybi 10. Archibios] has received
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The second copy of the receipt is mostly lost. Wood-cutting (xylokopia) probably refers to clearing scrub from land being brought into 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.3.28
ἔτους κθ, Τῦβι ι. ἔχει Ἀρχίβιος εἰς ξυλοκοπίαν ἀρουρῶν γ δραχμὰς ἑπτὰ τριώβολον . ἔτους κθ, Τῦβι ι. ἔχει […]