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Receipt for rent on city-owned former queen's land near Theadelphia TM 10931Harit (Fayum)204 CE

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A receipt issued by Apion, the nomarch, through his agent Heron, to the farmer Herakleos and his partners, acknowledging full payment of the rent for the harvest of year 12 on a plot near Theadelphia. The land belonged to an estate of the city that had once been the property of the queen of Ptolemy Neos Dionysos. It dates to 16 July 204.

In English machine translation

[recto] Apion, nomarch, through Heron, to Herakleos, farmer, and his partners, greetings. I have received from you the rent in full of the allotment which you farm near the village of Theadelphia, belonging to the estate of the city, formerly of the queen of Ptolemy Neos Dionysos, for the produce of the twelfth year. Year 12, Epeiph 22. [verso] Receipt of Herakleos and partners.

The phrase 'estate of the city of the queen of Ptolemy Neos Dionysos' is understood as land once held by the queen of Ptolemy XII and later part of the property of the city (Arsinoe). The 'kleros' is a land allotment originally granted to a settler.

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.

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Receipt for Rent

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Penn. Museum inv.E02769 · 204 CE · Harit (Fayum)

Side 1: Receipt issued to a cultivator by the nomarch acknowledging payment of the year's rent for a plot of land which had belonged to the Queen of Ptolemy Neos Dionysus, and was now apparently part of the common property of the city of Arsinoe. (Grenfell, Hunt, and Hogarth) Sid…

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 16. Juli 204 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

[r] Ἀπίων νομάρχης διὰ Ἥρωνος Ἡρακλέῳ γεωργῷ καὶ μετόχοις χαίρειν. ἔσχον παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον οὗ γεωργεῖς κλήρου περὶ κώμην Θεαδελφείαν οἴκου πόλεως βασιλίσσης Πτολεμαίου Νέου Διονύσου ὑπὲρ γενήματος δωδεκάτου ἔτους πλήρης. ἔτους ιβ, Ἐπεὶφ κβ. [v] ἀποχὴ Ἡρακλέου καὶ μετόχων.