Receipt for Rent
An acknowledgment of payment of rent for the third year of Probus on land which lay partly in Karanis and partly in Ptolemais Nea. Issued by Aphrodisius, a soldier, to Ptolemaeus, father of Isidorus.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10316
Receipt for rent on land near Karanis and Ptolemais Nea TM 10316Kom Aushim (Karanis)Feb. 17th, 279 A.D.
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A receipt in which the landowner Aurelius Aphrodisios acknowledges that his tenant farmer Aurelius Ptolemaios has paid in full the rent for land near Karanis and Ptolemais Nea for the third regnal year of Probus. It was issued on 17 February 279 in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Aurelius Aphrodisios […] […] […]
to Aurelius Ptolemaios, farmer, greetings.
I have received from you the rent in full for the arouras you farm of mine near the villages of Karanis and Ptolemais Nea of the division of Herakleides, for the past third year, and having been asked the formal question I have agreed. I, Aurelius Aphrodisios, have received the rent as stated above.
Year 4 of our lord Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus, Mecheir 23
The damaged second line may have given Aphrodisios's title; the museum description calls him a soldier and identifies Ptolemaios as the father of Isidoros. The term translated 'rent' (ekphorion) means rent paid in kind or money on leased land.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.
p.cair.isid.109
Αὐρήλιος Ἀφροδίσιος[…]…[…] […]………[…]…β Αὐρηλίῳ Πτολεμαίῳ γεωργῷ χαίρειν. ἀπέσχον παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον ὧν γεωργεῖς μου ἀρουρῶν περὶ κώμας Καρανίδα καὶ Πτολεμαίδα Νέαν τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος ὑπὲρ τοῦ διεληλυθότος τρίτου ἔτους πλήρης, καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα. Αὐρήλιος Ἀφροδίσιος ἀ…