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A receipt issued by Aurelia Ptolema, acting through her husband Ioannes, a gymnasiarch, to Aurelius Isidoros for 4 1/2 artabas of wheat paid as rent on land he farms for her near Karanis. It is dated 17 November 306.
"Year 15 and 3" is a double regnal-year date of the Tetrarchy. The rent (ekphorion) was paid in kind, a common arrangement for leased farmland.
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.
Αὐρηλία Πτολέμα διʼ ἐμοῦ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς Ἰωάννου γυμνασιαρχ Αὐρηλίῳ Ἰσιδώρῳ χαίρειν. ἔσχον παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον ὧν γεωργεῖς μου ἀρουρῶν περὶ κώμην Καρανίδα πυροῦ ἀρτάβας τέσσαρας ἥμισυ, γίνονται ἀρτάβαι δ 𐅵. Αὐρήλιος Ἰωάννης ἔγραψα τὰ ὅλα. ἔτους ιε καὶ γ Ἁθὺρ κα.
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