Receipt for Rent
An acknowledgment of delivery of nine artabas of wheat in October 309 by Isidorus, son of Ptolemaeus, to Zoilus as rent for the year 308/309 on land within the horiodeiktia of Karanis.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10325
Receipt for wheat rent on land in the boundary district of Karanis TM 10325Kom Aushim (Karanis)Oct. 15th 309 A.D.
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A receipt in which Aurelius Zoilos, an assistant attached to the prytanis, acknowledges receiving 9 artabas of wheat from Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios as rent for land Isidoros farms in the boundary district of Karanis. It is dated 15 October 309.
In English machine translation
Aurelius Zoilos, prytanic assistant, to Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, greeting.
I have received from you the rent for the arouras of mine that you farm in the boundary district of Karanis, for the crop of year 17 and year 5 and year 3 and year 1, 9 artabas of wheat, as aforesaid.
I, Aurelius Zoilos, wrote the whole.
In the consulship of our lords Licinnianus Licinnius Augustus and Flavius Constantinus son of the Augusti, on the Ides of October.
The four regnal years (17, 5, 3, 1) all designate the single crop year 308/309 under the several emperors then reigning. The horiodeiktia is the official boundary district of a village's territory.
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.117
Αὐρήλιος Ζωίλος πρυτανικὸς ὑπηρέτης Αὐρηλίῳ Ἰσιδώρῳ Πτολεμαίου χαίρειν. ἀπέσχον παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον ὧν γεωργεῖς μου ἀρουρῶν περὶ τὴν ὁριοδεικτίαν Καρανίδος ὑπὲρ γενήματος ιζ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους καὶ γ ἔτους καὶ α ἔτους πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ἐννέα ὡς πρόκιται. Αὐρήλιος Ζωίλος ἔγραψα τὰ ὅλα.…