One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11232
Receipt for payment on a palm grove of the Dionysodorian estate TM 11232Epipolis (Arsinoites)208 - 209
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A receipt issued by Sarapodoros and Mystharion, collectors of estate revenues at Epipolis in the Arsinoite nome, to the overseer of estate lands. It acknowledges payment of 140 drachmas for the overseeing of a palm grove of 6 1/2 arouras belonging to the Dionysodorian estate, for the 16th regnal year, and is dated in year 17 of Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta.
In English machine translation
Sarapodoros and Mystharion, collectors of the estate revenues of Epipolis in the division of Herakleides of the Arsinoite nome, to the overseer of estate lands, greeting. We have received from you, for the overseeing of the Dionysodorian estate, palm grove of 6 1/2 arouras, of (the place) called Strategos, for the past sixteenth year, the total of one hundred and forty drachmas, total 140 drachmas. I, Mystharion, have received jointly one hundred and forty drachmas, total 140 drachmas.
Year 17 of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, {and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti} and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus, […]
The Dionysodorian estate (ousia) was a former private estate that had passed into imperial ownership and was administered as state land. The scribe mistakenly repeated the line naming Caracalla.
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 taxe pour une palmeraie d’un domaine public). 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.1.38
p.gen.1.2ed.38
Σαραπόδωρος καὶ Μυσθαρίων πράκτορες οὐσιακῶν Ἐπιπόλεως Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος Ἀρσινοείτου ἐπιτηρητῇ οὐσιακῶν ἐδαφῶν χαίρειν. ἔσχομεν παρὰ σοῦ ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐπιτηρήσεως Διονυσοδωριανῆς οὐσίας φοινικῶνος ἀρουρῶν ϛ 𐅵 Στρατηγοῦ λεγομένου ὑπὲρ τοῦ διεληλυθότος ἑκκαιδεκάτου ἔτους τὰς συναγομένα…