Duplicate receipt
The same type of receipt, for payment for maintenance of trees, as PCZ.59117.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 767
Double receipt for an advance for wood-cutting and burning of scrubland TM 767Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)24th January, 256 B.C.
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A double receipt (the text written twice on the same sheet) recording that Horos son of Paschinis from Boutos received an advance of money for clearing 21 arouras of scrubland by cutting wood and then burning it, at 4 obols per aroura for each task. It dates to 24 January 256 BC and probably comes from Philadelphia in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 29, Choiak 1. Horos son of Paschinis from Boutos has received, for the wood-cutting of the coppice (?), as a loan, for 21 arouras at 4 obols each, total 14 (drachmas); and for burning, for 21 arouras at 4 obols each, total 14 (drachmas).
Year 29, Choiak 1. Horos son of Paschinis from Boutos has received, for the wood-cutting of the coppice (?), as a loan, for 21 arouras at 4 obols each, total 14 (drachmas); and for burning, for 21 arouras at 4 obols each, total 14 (drachmas).
[verso]
Year 29, Choiak 1. Of silver money.
The word kopas probably means land overgrown with brush or coppice being cleared for cultivation; the scribe accidentally repeated a phrase in the first copy. The 14 is understood as drachmas (21 x 4 obols = 84 obols).
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.1.59118
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