A New Document of the Soterichos Archive from Cairo Museum Receipt for grass- price

Document Type : Original Article

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Curator in the Egyptian Museum the Egyptian Museum in Cairo

Abstract

This papyrus text is a receipt for the price of green grass and has 
the usual formula that begins with the name of the receiver in 
nominative case and the payer in the dative case, followed by 
ταιρεῖν. Posidonios the son of Aphrodite received thirty two 
silver drachmae from Soterichos, son of Lykos, as price for the 
grass which his oxen and lambs devoured.

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