One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11220
Receipt for rent of farmland paid by a tenant TM 11220Hermopolites19. Juli 124
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A rent receipt in which the landowner Xenon son of Asklepiades, acting through his agent Hermaios, acknowledges to his tenant Anoubion son of Sarapion full payment of the rent in kind for land farmed in Hadrian's 8th year. Xenon, as a katoikos, takes on the state taxes on the land. Written in the Hermopolite nome in July 124 AD, with Hermophilos signing for the illiterate agent.
In English machine translation
Xenon son of Asklepiades, through Hermaios his own (agent), to Anoubion son of Sarapion, greeting.
I have received from you in full all the rents of the arouras of mine which you farm, from the produce of the present 8th year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, the public dues being my responsibility as the katoikos.
Year 8 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Epeiph 25.
I, Hermophilos son of Kastor, wrote on behalf of Hermaios, who does not know letters.
A katoikos was a holder of privileged 'catoecic' land, originally a military settler class; here the owner bears the public taxes himself. The rent (ekphoria) was paid in produce, measured out to the owner.
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.
p.gen.1.2ed.25
Ξένων Ἀσκληπιάδου διὰ Ἑρμαίου ἰδίου Ἀνουβίωνι Σαραπίωνος χαίρειν. μεμέτρημαι παρὰ σοῦ πάντα τὰ ἐκφόρια ὧν γεωργεῖς μου ἀρουρῶν γενήματος τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος η ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου, τῶν δημοσίων ὄντων πρὸς ἐμὲ τὸν κάτοικον. ἔτους η Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σ…