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A receipt, written twice, recording that Alexandros son of Dromon received 12 drachmas 3 obols for cutting brushwood and burning off 5 arouras of land at 2 1/2 drachmas per aroura. It belongs to the Zenon archive from Philadelphia in the Fayum and dates to February 256 BC.
The text is written as a double document with two copies of the same receipt. Wood-cutting and burning-off refer to clearing scrub from land 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.
ἔτους κθ, Τῦβι β. ἔχει Ἀλέξανδρος Δρόμωνος εἰς ξυλοκοπίαν καὶ ἐμπυρισμὸν ἀρουρῶν ε ἀνὰ δραχμὰς β τριώβολον γίνονται δραχμαὶ ιβ τριώβολον. ἔτους κθ, Τῦβι β. ἔχει Ἀλέξανδρος Δρόμωνος εἰς ξυλοκοπίαν καὶ ἐμπυρισμὸν ἀρουρῶν ε ἀνὰ δραχμὰς β τριώβολον γίνονται δραχμαὶ ιβ τριώβολον.
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