Receipt for Rent
An acknowledgment of delivery of nine artabas of wheat by Isidorus, son of Ptolemaeus, to Zoilus as rent for the year 310/311 on land within the horiodeiktia of Karanis.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10329
Receipt for wheat rent paid by Isidoros to Zoilos TM 10329Kom Aushim (Karanis)Aug. 26th, 311 A.D.
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A receipt in which Aurelius Zoilos, assistant of the prytanis (council president), acknowledges that the farmer Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios paid 9 artabas of wheat as rent for land he farmed. It was written at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome on 26 August 311.
In English machine translation
Aurelius Zoilos, assistant of the prytanis, to Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, farmer, greeting.
I have received from you the rent for the arouras of mine which you farmed in the area of the horiodeiktia, for the produce of the 19th year and 7th year and 5th year and 3rd year, nine artabas of wheat, total 9 artabas, in full. I, Aurelius Zoilos, wrote the whole.
In the consulship of our lord Galerius Valerius Maximinus Augustus for the 2nd time, Epagomenal day 3.
The four regnal years (19, 7, 5, 3) all refer to the single crop year 310/311, counted under several co-ruling emperors. The horiodeiktia was a boundary-marked zone of land around the village.
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.120
Αὐρήλιος Ζωίλος πρυτάνεως ὑπηρέτης Αὐρηλίῳ Ἰσιδώρῳ Πτολεμαίου γεωργῷ χαίρειν. ἔσχον παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριονὧν ἐγεώργησάς μου ἀρουρῶν περὶ τὴν ὁριοδεικτίαν ὑπὲρ γενήματος ιθ ἔτους καὶ ζ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους καὶ γ ἔτους πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ἐννέα, γίνονται ἀρτάβαι θ, πλήρης. Αὐρήλιος Ζωίλος ἔγρ…