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Receipt for wheat rent from Aurelia Serenilla to Isidoros of Karanis TM 10320ArsinoitesApr. - Aug. 300

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A receipt in which Aurelia Serenilla, a citizen of Antinoopolis acting without a guardian, acknowledges that her tenant farmer Aurelius Isidoros of Karanis paid 11 artabas of wheat as rent for land near Karanis. It dates to AD 300 in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our lords Constantius and Maximianus, most illustrious Caesars, for the 3rd time. Aurelia Serenilla daughter of Ptolemaios, Antinoite, and however she is styled, acting without a guardian by the right of children, to Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, from the village of Karanis, farmer, greetings. I have received from you the rent of the arouras of mine which you farm in the village territory of Karanis, for the produce of the [15th] year and 14th year and [7th] year and [6th year and 15th year] and 8th year, 11 artabas of wheat, and having been asked the formal question I acknowledged it. I, Aurelia Serenilla, styled Antinoite, have signed. Year 16 and [1]5 and 8 of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti and Constantius and [Maximianus] the most illustrious [Caesars] […]

The regnal years in the receipt line are largely restored and repeat the dating formula (years 16, 15 and 8 of the emperors and Caesars), so they refer to the current harvest year rather than to six separate years. The 'right of children' (ius liberorum) allowed a woman with three or more children to act without a male guardian.

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.

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p.cair.isid.112

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Apr. - Aug. 300 · Arsinoites

ὑπατείας τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτων Καισάρων τὸ γ. Αὐρηλία Σερηνίλλα Πτολεμαίου Ἀντινοὶς καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει χωρὶς κυρίου χρηματίζουσα τέκνων δικαίῳ Αὐρηλίῳ Ἰσιδώρῳ Πτολεμαίου ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος γεωργῷ χαίρειν. ἀπέσχον παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον ὧν γεωργεῖς…