Duplicate receipt
A duplicate receipt.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 765
Duplicate receipt for payment to Phernouthis for clearing land TM 765Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)21st December, 257 B.C.
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A receipt written out twice, recording that Phernouthis was paid 4 drachmas for clearing 6 arouras of land at 4 obols per aroura. It comes from the Zenon archive and is dated 21 December 257 BC, probably at Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 29, Phaophi 27.
Phernouthis has received for clearing the kopas (cut land?) of 6 arouras at 4 obols each, 4 drachmas.
Year 29, Phaophi 27.
Phernouthis has received for clearing the kopas of 6 arouras at 4 obols each, total 4 drachmas.
[verso]
[…] Phaophi 27. Money accounts.
The term kopas seems to refer to land cut over or cleared of brush, with no exact English equivalent. The verso docket files the receipt under money accounts.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Duplicate receipt). 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.cair.zen.1.59116
[r] ἔτους κθ, Φαῶφι κζ. ἔχει Φερνοῦθις εἰς κάθαρσιν τῆς κοπάδος ἀρουρῶν ϛ ἀνὰ τετρώβολον δ. ἔτους κθ, Φαῶφι κζ. ἔχει Φερνοῦθις εἰς κάθαρσιν τῆς κοπάδος ἀρουρῶν ϛ ἀνὰ τετρώβολον γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ. [v] […]Φαῶφι κζ. ἀργυρικά.