Lease with advance rent receipt for 3 arouras at Philadelphia TM 11242Philadelphia (Arsinoites, Ägypten)19. Jan. 383
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A combined lease and rent receipt in which four villagers of Philadelphia lease 3 arouras to Aurelius Ol for sowing in the 13th indiction and acknowledge having received the rent in full in advance, while they keep responsibility for the taxes. It was written by Aurelius Klamasios for the illiterate lessors in January AD 383.
In English machine translation
The 'resourceless names' (apora onomata) were land registered to defaulting or insolvent taxpayers, whose cultivation was assigned to others. The text says 'both' (amphoteroi) though four lessors are named, and the docket calls Ammonianos 'Annianos'.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contrat de location d’un terrain). 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.67
[r] τοῖς μετὰ τὴν ὑπατίαν Εὐχαιρίου καὶ Συαγρίου τῶν λαμπροτάτων Τῦβι κδ ια ἰνδικτίωνος. ὁμολογοῦσιν ἀλλήλοις Αὐρήλιοι Ἀμμωνιανὸς Πεκυσίου καὶ Ἀσάεις Ἁτρῆ καὶ Ἀπφοῦς Μαύρου καὶ Πουὰρ Ἀτίωνος, ἀμφότεροι ἀπὸ κώμης Φιλαδελφίας τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογοῦμεν μεμισθωκέναι τῷ Αὐρηλί…