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A bank document from the bank of Palamedes and partners at Dionysias in the Arsinoite nome, recording that Tasis, acting with her guardian Heron, received from the farmer Anoubas of Philoteris the rent for the current fifteenth year of Antoninus Pius. It dates to Epeiph, July 152 AD; the rest of the text is lost.
The payment was apparently made through the bank, perhaps by transfer between deposits. 'Fatherless' (apator) means Tasis's father was legally unrecorded, so she is identified by her mother.
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 Farm Rent Paid by Transfer of Bank Deposit). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
A woman named Tasis, resident of Dionysias, which was located in the division of Themistes at the western end of Lake Moeris, has rented a farm plot belonging to her to one Anoubas who lived in the village of Philoteris. The latter village lay some miles to the southeast of Diony…
ἔτους πεντεκαιδεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς Ἐπεὶφ κ[…] ἀπὸ τῆς Παλαμήδους καὶ μετόχων τραπέζης Διονυσιάδος. Ἀνουβᾶς Σώτου ἀπὸ κώμης Φιλωτερίδος γεωργῷ Τασῖτι ἀπάτορι μητρὸς Τα[…]ς ἀπὸ κώμης Διονυσιάδος ἐτῶν μ οὐλὴ μετώπῳ μετὰ κυρ…
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