Receipt for Farm-Rent
Acknowledgement by Didyme of the receipt of 2 1/4 artabae (of wheat?) from her tenant Heron.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10941
Receipt from Didyme for rent paid by her tenant Heron TM 10941H�ritA.D. 159
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A receipt in which Didyme, also called Matrona, acting with her cousin Heron as guardian, acknowledges that her tenant farmer Heron son of Satabous has paid the rent of 2 1/4 artabas for the land allotment he farms. The tenant remains liable for the artaba-tax and the naubion. It was written on 22 July 159 at Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Didyme also called Matrona, daughter of Asklepiades, with as guardian my cousin on my mother's side Heron son of Apollonios, to Heron son of Satabous, farmer, greetings. I have received from you the rents of the 22nd year of the allotment of mine which you farm, […] 2 1/4 artabas, the artaba-tax and the naubion being your responsibility, Heron's.
Year 22 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Epeiph 28.
The artabieia (a tax in kind per aroura) and the naubion (a tax for dyke and canal work) are land taxes with no exact English equivalent. The commodity, probably wheat, is lost in a small gap.
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). 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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Διδύμη ἡ καὶ Ματρώνα Ἀσκληπιάδου μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ κατὰ μητέρα μου ἀνεψιοῦ Ἥρωνος τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου Ἥρωνι Σαταβοῦτος γεωργῷ χαίρειν. ἀπέχω παρὰ σοῦ τὰ ἐκφόρια τοῦ κβ ἔτους οὗ γεωργεῖς μου κλήρου […] ἀρτάβας δύο τέταρτον , τῆς ἀρταβείας καὶ τοῦ ναυβίου ὄντος πρὸς σὲ τὸν Ἥρωνα. ἔτους κβ…