A rent receipt in which Aurelia Ptolema, acting through her husband Aurelius Ioannes, acknowledges receiving from Aurelius Isidoros 4 1/2 artabas of wheat as her share of the produce of land he farmed near Karanis. She reserves her claim for rent of earlier years. Written at Karanis in AD 304.
In English machine translation
Aurelia Ptolema, through me her husband Aurelius Ioannes, former gymnasiarch (?), to Aurelius Isidoros, greetings.
I have received from you the share due to me of the arouras which you farmed in the boundary district (?) of Karanis, for the produce of the past 20th and 12th year, 4 1/2 artabas of wheat, total 4 1/2 artabas, my claim remaining regarding the earlier 19th and 18th and 11th year. I, Aurelius Ioannes, wrote the whole.
Year 21 and 13, Hathyr 17.
The abbreviated title 'gymnas(iarch)' may belong to Ioannes or to Isidoros, depending on how the case of the abbreviation is resolved. The double regnal years (21 and 13) refer to the joint reigns of the Tetrarchic emperors.
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.