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Receipt for wheat rent on land near Karanis paid by Isidoros TM 10321ArsinoitesApr. - Aug. 303

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A receipt issued by the brothers Gemellos and Pasigenes, sons of Palemon, through their half-brother Aurelius Kasios, to the farmer Aurelius Isidoros for rent in wheat on land near Karanis. It dates to 303 AD in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

The Aurelii Gemellos and Pasigenes, both sons of Palemon, through me their brother by the same mother, Aurelius Kasios, and however I am styled, to Aurelius Isidoros, farmer, greetings. We have received from you the rent for the arouras of ours that you farm in the boundary district of Karanis, in the sixth sphragis, for the produce of the current year: 4 1/2 1/3 artabas of wheat. And having been asked the formal question, we have agreed. I, Aurelius Kasios, wrote the whole. Year 19 and 18 and 12 of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti and Constantius and Maximian, the most illustrious Caesars […]

A sphragis is a numbered land parcel or survey block within a village's territory. Isidoros is the well-known farmer of Karanis whose archive this text belongs to.

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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Apr. - Aug. 303 · Arsinoites

Αὐρήλιοι Γέμελλος καὶ Πασιγένης ἀμφότεροι Παλήμονος διʼ ἐμοῦ τοῦ ὁμομητρίου αὐτῶν ἀδελφοῦ Αὐρηλίου Κασίου καὶ ὡς χρηματίζω Αὐρηλίῳ Ἰσιδώρῳ γεωργῷ χαίρειν. ἀπέσχαμεν παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον ὧν γεωργεῖς ἡμῶν ἀρουρῶν περὶ ὁριοδεικτίαν Καρανίδος ἐπὶ τῆς ἕκτης σφραγῖδος ὑπὲρ γενήματος το…