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A receipt in which Asklepiades acknowledges to the tenant farmer of his mother Erene's 12 1/2-aroura allotment near Kerkesis that the rents have been paid through year 10 of Hadrian. The tenant still holds receipts for the artaba-tax up to year 9 and must hand them over. Written at Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome, AD 125.
The artabeia was a tax on land paid in artabas of grain, and the 'symbolon' is probably the tax receipt for it. The tenant is addressed only as 'the cultivator', without being named.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ricevuta di affitto). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ἀσκληπιάδης Ἀσκληπιάδου τῶι γεωργῷ χαίρειν. ἀπέχω παρὰ σοῦ τὰ ἐκφόρια ὧν γεωργεῖς μου τῆς μητρὸς Ἠρήνης τῆς Ἡρακλείδου κλήρου ἀρουρῶν ιβ 𐅵 περὶ κώμην Κερκῆσιν τῆς Πολέμωνος μερίδος μέχρι τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος δεκάτου ἔτους καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ δεκάτου ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου, παρὰ σο…
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