Receipt December 15, 247 BC
Receipt in epistolary form: Athenodoros writes to Eukles and Agathokles that he received from the farmer Herakleides advance payment for vine props
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1790
Receipt for advance payment for reed vine-props TM 1790Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)247 BCE
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A receipt written as a letter in which Athenodoros tells Eukles and Agathokles that he has received payment from the farmer Herakleides for reed vine-props, promising to deliver them to the designated estates for the vineyard work of year 40 or pay a penalty. It dates to 15 December 247 BC, probably at Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Athenodoros to Eukles and Agathokles, greetings. I have received from Herakleides, farmer, the price of reed vine-props, 6 5/... myriads (?), at the rate of 4 obols per myriad, total 4 drachmas 2 obols, on condition that I deliver them on the estates assigned by you for the vineyard works of year 40, or I shall pay 4 drachmas per myriad and the damages. This is the remainder of what was paid to me for the cutting of vine-props in year 38.
[verso]
⟦I shall pay in addition⟧ And I shall pay you in addition at the same time also of the 4 drachmas 2 obols paid to me in the month Phaophi, on the 23rd, for 6 5/... myriads (?). Farewell.
Year 39, Phaophi 23.
6, 4 obols, 2 obols, 6 20 (?)
20, 2 obols, 1 obol, 1/2 obol
surplus (?) 20
To Eukles, Agathokles.
The quantity sign after 'myriads 6' is uncertain in the edition; the props were counted in units of ten thousand. The figures at the end of the verso are a calculation whose exact meaning is unclear.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt of Advance Payment for Vine Props). 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.4.76
[r] Ἀθηνόδωρος Εὐκλεῖ καὶ Ἀγαθοκλεῖ χαίρειν. ἔχω παρὰ Ἡρακλείδου γεωργοῦ μισθὸν χάρακος καλαμίνου μυριάδων ϛ Ε ὡς τῆς μυριάδος τετρώβολον, γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ διώβολον, ἐφʼ ὦι παραδείξω αὐτὸν ἐν τοῖς κτήμασιν τοῖς ἐξαριθμουμένοις παρʼ ὑμῶν εἰς τὰ ἀμπελικὰ ἔργα τοῦ μ ἔτους ἢ ἀποτεί…