Duplicate receipt
A duplicate receipt.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 776
Duplicate receipt for payment for wood-cutting and burning off 2 arouras TM 776Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)1st March, 256 B.C.
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A receipt written twice on the same sheet, recording that a Macedonian, son of Amyntas, received through Theutes 5 drachmas for cutting wood and burning off scrub on 2 arouras of land. It dates to 1 March 256 BC and probably comes from Philadelphia in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
Year 29, Tybi 7. […]geus son of Amyntas, Macedonian, has received through Theutes, for wood-cutting and burning (clearing) of 2 arouras at 2 1/2 drachmas each, total [5 drachmas].
Year 29, Tybi [7]. […]eus son of Amyntas, Macedonian, has received through Theutes, for wood-cutting and burning of 2 arouras at 2 1/2 drachmas each, total [5 drachmas].
The work described is land clearance, cutting brush and burning it so the ground could be cultivated. The payee's name is only partly legible, and the totals of 5 drachmas are restored from the rate of 2 1/2 drachmas per aroura.
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.1.59127
ἔτους κθ, Τῦβι ζ ἔχει …γεὺς Ἀμύντου Μακεδὼν διὰ Θευτέλους εἰς ξυλοκοπίαν καὶ ἐμπυρισμὸν ἀρουρῶν β ἀνὰ β τριώβολον γίνονται δραχμαὶ ε. ἔτους κθ, Τῦβιζ. ἔχει …εὺς Ἀμύντου Μακεδὼν διὰ Θευτέλους εἰς ξυλοκοπίαν καὶ ἐμπυρισμὸν ἀρουρῶν β ἀνὰ β τριώβολον γίνονται δραχμαὶ ε.