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A rent receipt in which Aurelius Zoilos, an assistant attached to the city council's presidency, acknowledges receiving 9 artabas of wheat from Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios for land Isidoros farmed near Karanis. Isidoros is to continue farming the plot. It dates to AD 310.
The regnal years 18, 6, 4 and 2 refer to the concurrent years of the reigning emperors, all denoting a single harvest. A 'prytanic assistant' (prytanikos hyperetes) was a subordinate of the prytanis, the president of the city council.
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.
Αὐρήλιος Ζωίλος πρυτανικὸς ὑπηρέτης Αὐρηλίῳ Ἰσιδώρῳ Πτολεμαίου χαίρειν. ἔσχον παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον ὧν ἐγεώργησάς μου ἀρουρῶν περὶ τὴν ὁριοδεικτίαν Καρανίδος ὑπὲρ γενήματος ιη ἔτους καὶ ϛ ἔτους καὶ δ ἔτους καὶ β ἔτους σίτου ἀρτάβας ἐννέα, σίτου ἀρτάβας θ, γεωργοῦ μένοντός σου τοῦ …
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