A running rent receipt issued by Archonas, manager of the Herakleia-area properties of Claudius Syrion, perpetual gymnasiarch of Alexandria, to Sotas of Soknopaiou Nesos. It records successive rent payments for a storeroom on the estate of Marempis over regnal years 22 to 25.
In English machine translation
[recto]
⟦Archonas, manager of the estate⟧ of Claudius Syrion, perpetual gymnasiarch of the most splendid city of the Alexandrians, and however he is styled, through Archonas, manager of the properties around Herakleia, to Sotas, of the Island (Nesos), greetings.
I have received from you the rent for the storeroom (?) which you hold of the estate of Marempis, for the 22nd year, 48 drachmas of silver, total 48 drachmas.
Year 22, Mesore 2.
And on the 30th of the month Mecheir of the 23rd year, for the rent of the 23rd year, on account, another 12 drachmas, total 12.
Likewise another 8 drachmas, total 8.
Likewise for the second half-year of the 23rd year another 20 drachmas, total 20 drachmas.
[verso]
And likewise for the months from Thoth to Mecheir of the 24th year, another 20 drachmas on account, total 20 drachmas.
Likewise the same man for the months from Phamenoth to Mesore of the 24th year, 20 drachmas of silver, total 20 drachmas. Year 25.
Likewise for the months up to Hathyr […]
Year 25, the same man on account […]
Likewise another 12 drachmas, total 12 drachmas.
Likewise the same man for the months from Phamenoth to Mesore another 20 drachmas.
The word kellē denotes a small room or storeroom; 'Nesiotes' identifies Sotas as an inhabitant of Soknopaiou Nesos. The opening line naming Archonas was deleted by the scribe and rewritten in the agency formula.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung des Verwalters Archonas). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.