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Receipt for rent of a kleros near Kerkesis TM 11555Tebtynis (Arsinoites)130 - 131

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A rent receipt in which the landowner Asklepiades acknowledges payment from his tenant farmer for land near Kerkesis in the 15th year of Hadrian, including a cash rent of 240 drachmas for dry land. It comes from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome, AD 130-131.

In English machine translation

Asklepiades to the farmer, greeting. I have received from you the rent for the current 15th year of Hadrian the lord for the 12 1/2 arouras of my kleros which you farm near Kerkesis, you having undertaken the artaba-tax and naubion of the arouras, and for the other plots which you happen to have leased, all of dry land and (?) [...], making together 25 1/2 arouras, the receipt for which you will hand back to me in the other years in succession, and I have received the rent of the dry land, 240 drachmas, in accordance with the farmer's lease of the same arouras. Year 15 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus [...]

Much of the right side is restored, including the acreages and the sum of 240 drachmas. The artabieia and naubion were land taxes in grain and in cash for dyke work, here assumed by the tenant.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 130 - 131 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

Ἀσκληπιάδης τῶι γεωργῷ χαίρειν. ἀπέχω παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ιε ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου ὧν γεωργεῖς μου κλήρου ἀρουρῶν δέκα δύο ἥμισυ περὶ Κερκῆσιν, ὑπολαβόντος σου τὴν ἀρταβείαν καὶ ναύβιον τῶν ἀρουρῶν, καὶ ὧν ἄλλων τυγχάνεις μισθῶσαι χερσονομῶν καὶ κταμίων πάντων,…