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A private receipt in which Apollonios son of Demetrios acknowledges that his tenant farmer Psenamounis has paid the rent for year 4 on a plot near the farmstead of Nestos. Since the tenant has given up the lease from the current year, Apollonios declares he has no further claim against him. Written in the Arsinoite nome in year 5 of Trajan (AD 101-102).
A kleros was a land allotment originally granted to a settler, later held and leased as private property. The month in the date is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Private Receipt for Rent). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ἀπολλώνιος Δημητρίου Ψεναμοῦνι γεωργῷ χαίρειν. ἀπέχω παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον τοῦ διεληλυθότος τετάρτου ἔτους οὗ γεωργεῖς μου κλήρου περὶ τὸ Νέστου ἐποίκιον καὶ οὐδέν σοι ἐνκαλῶ διὰ τὸ ἀποβεβηκέναι τῆς μισθώσεως ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἔτους. Ἀπολλώνιος ἀπέχω καὶ […]ἔτους πέμπτου Αὐτοκράτο…
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