One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10331

Two receipts for wheat rent on land near Karanis TM 10331Kom Aushim (Karanis)Nov. 5th, 314 and July 28th, 315 A.D.

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Two rent receipts on one papyrus issued by Aurelia Ptolemas of the Phremi quarter of Arsinoe to her tenant farmer Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, acknowledging payment in wheat for land near Karanis. Her son Serenos wrote for her because she was illiterate.

In English machine translation

[1] Aurelia Ptolemas, daughter of Apollonios, her mother being Serenilla, from the Phremi quarter, to Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, farmer, greeting. I have received from you the rent of the arouras of mine which you farmed in the boundary district of Karanis, for the produce of year 21, 9 artabas of wheat, total 9 artabas, in full, the lease remaining valid, and having been asked the formal question I acknowledged it. In the consulship of Rufius Volusianus and Petronius Annianus, the most illustrious, Hathyr 9. I, Aurelia Ptolemas, have received the rents in full as stated above. I, Aurelius Serenos, wrote on behalf of my mother, who is illiterate. [2] Aurelia Ptolemas, daughter of Apollonios, her mother being Serenilla, from the Phremi quarter, to Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, farmer, greeting. I have received from you the rent of the arouras of mine which you farm in the boundary district of Karanis, for the produce of the 2nd indiction, which is year 22, and of the 3rd indiction, which is year 23, 18 artabas of wheat, total 18 artabas, in full as stated above. In the consulship of our lords Constantine and Licinius Augusti, for the 4th time, Mesore 4. I, Aurelia Ptolemas, have received the rent as stated above. I, Aurelius Serenos, wrote on behalf of my mother, who is illiterate.

The main record dates the papyrus to 28 July 315 only, but the first receipt is dated 5 November 314. The horiodeiktia was the boundary-defined district of a village's land.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipts 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.

Receipts for Rent

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE57055 · Nov. 5th, 314 and July 28th, 315 A.D. · Kom Aushim (Karanis)

Two acknowledgments of payment of rent on land in the horiodeiktia of Karanis by Isidorus, son of Ptolemaeus, to Ptolemas, daughter of Apollonius and Serenilla, who resided in Phremi, the well-known quarter of Arsino�.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 28. Juli 315 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

[1] Αὐρηλία Πτολεμᾶς Ἀπολλωνίου μητρὸς Σερηνίλλας ἀπὸ ἀμφόδου Φρεμὶ Αὐρηλίῳ Ἰσιδώρῳ Πτολεμαίου γεωργῷ χαίρειν. ἀπέσχον παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον ὧν ἐγεώργησάς μου ἀρουρῶν περὶ ὁριοδεικτίαν Καρανίδος ὑπὲρ γενήματος κα ἔτους πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ἐννέα, γίνονται ἀρτάβαι θ, πλήρης, κυρίας οὔσης …