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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

[recto] In the year after the consulship of Eucherius and Syagrius, viri clarissimi, Tybi 24, 11th indiction. The Aurelii Ammonianos son of Pekysis, Asaeis son of Hatres, Apphous son of Mauros and Pouar son of Ation, all from the village of Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, acknowledge to one another: We acknowledge that we have leased to Aurelius Ol son of Koueieus, from the 'resourceless names' (?) under the name of Gaion, in the locality of Thanepl(orois) (?), 3 arouras for sowing in the 13th indiction, subject to measurement by the rope and the flooding of the waters. And we have received the rents in full, while all the public taxes are the responsibility of us, the lessors. The rent-receipt is valid, and having been asked we acknowledged to one another. We, the Aurelii Ammonianos, Asaeis, Apphous and Pouar, the aforementioned, have leased the aforementioned three arouras, 3 arouras, and have received the rents in full as stated above. I, Aurelius Klamasios, wrote the document on their behalf, since they do not know letters. [verso] Rent-receipt: Annianos and Asaeis and Pouar and [Apphous], 3 arouras for sowing […]

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 19. Jan. 383 · Philadelphia (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

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