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A receipt in which a landowner acknowledges receiving from Sarapion son of Pasis, a farmer working his land, the rent in wheat for the land he cultivates. It is dated in the joint reign of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander (AD 221-222), probably at Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
The emperor named as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix is Elagabalus, with Severus Alexander as Caesar. The "rents" (ekphoria) are rent paid in kind on leased land.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Reçu de loyer). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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