Receipt for Rent
Undated acknowledgment of payment of rent for the fifth year, presumably in the reign of Probus, on two arouras in the village of Karanis. Isued by Aphrodisius, a soldier, to Ptolemaeus, father of Isidorus.
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Receipt from a soldier for rent on two arouras at Karanis TM 10318Kom Aushim (Karanis)280 or 281 A.D.
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A receipt issued by the soldier Aurelius Aphrodisios to Aurelius Ptolemaios acknowledging full payment of the rent for the fifth year on two arouras of land that Ptolemaios farmed at Karanis. It dates to about AD 280-281 in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Aurelius Aphrodisios, soldier, to Aurelius Ptolemaios, greetings.
I have received from you the rent for the fifth year for the two arouras which you farmed in the village of Karanis, in full.
I, Aurelius Aphrodisios, have signed.
The 'fifth year' is presumably of the emperor Probus. Ptolemaios is the father of Isidoros, whose family archive this receipt belongs to; the rent (ekphorion) here is a payment in kind or money for 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.110
Αὐρήλιος Ἀφροδίσιος στρατιώτης Αὐρηλίῳ Πτολεμαίῳ χαίρειν. ἔσχον παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον τοῦ πέμπτου ἔτους ὧν ἐγεώργησας δύο ἀρουρῶν ἐν κώμῃ Καρανίδος πλήρης. Αὐρήλιος Ἀφροδίσιος σεσημείωμαι.