Receipt to Patis for wood-cutting and burning on cleared land TM 2479Philadelphia (Arsinoites)11. Febr. 256 v.Chr.

A double receipt recording that Patis son of Pais was paid for cutting wood on 5 arouras of land and for burning off the same area, at 4 obols per aroura for each task. It comes from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum and dates to 11 February 256 BC.

In English machine translation

The text is written twice, as an upper and lower copy of the same receipt. The term kopas probably refers to land being cleared of brushwood, which was cut and then burnt off to prepare it 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 Quittung für ξυλοκοπία und ἐμπυρισμός). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.