Duplicate receipt
Pelois acknowledges receipt of 6 drachmae, 4 obols, as a loan, for cutting down the brushwood on 10 arurae and the same amount for burning the stumps on the same piece of land.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 766
Duplicate receipt for advances for clearing and burning brushwood TM 766Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)23rd January, 256 B.C.
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A receipt written out twice (a double document), in which Pelois son of Peteminis from Psoapris acknowledges receiving advances of 6 drachmas 4 obols for cutting brushwood on 10 arouras and the same sum for burning it off. It belongs to the Zenon archive and dates to 23 January 256 BC, from the Arsinoite nome (Philadelphia).
In English machine translation
Year 29, Hathyr 30. Pelois son of Peteminis from Psoapris has received, for the wood-cutting of the brushwood, as a loan, for 10 arouras at 4 obols (each), making 6 (drachmas) 4 obols; and for the burning, for 10 arouras at 4 obols (each), making 6 (drachmas) 4 obols.
Year 29, Hathyr 30. Pelois son of Peteminis from Psoapris has received, for the wood-cutting of the brushwood, as a loan, for 10 arouras at 4 obols (each), making 6 (drachmas) 4 obols; and for the burning, for 10 arouras at 4 obols (each), making 6 (drachmas) 4 obols.
The payment is called a loan (daneion), i.e. an advance on wages for land-clearing work. The text is written twice on the same sheet, a common safeguard for receipts.
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.1.59117
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