Quittung über Teilzahlungen von Pachtzins
Receipt for rent
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11882
Receipt for instalments of fixed rent paid at Polydeukia TM 11882Polydeukeia, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptVerso: 4th February 183 A. D.; Recto: 2nd century A.D.
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A receipt recording that Hermas son of Hermas paid instalments on his fixed rent for year 23 of Commodus to Ision, collector of money taxes at the village of Polydeukia in the Arsinoite nome: 8 drachmas on Tybi 2 and 4 drachmas on Mecheir 10.
In English machine translation
Year 23 of Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus, Tybi 2. Hermas son of Hermas has paid to Ision, collector of money taxes of the village of Polydeukia, on account of the fixed rent (apotaktos) for the same year, 8 drachmas, total 8 dr.
Mecheir 10, the same man, 4 drachmas, total 4 dr.
The records give 4 Feb. 183, which corresponds to the second payment (Mecheir 10); the first payment on Tybi 2 falls on 28 December 182. The apotaktos was a fixed rent, usually paid in money, on public or state land.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung über Teilzahlungen von Pachtzins). 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.lund.6.4
ἔτους κγ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Κομμόδου Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Τῦβι β. διέγραψεν Ἰσίωνι πράκτορι ἀργυρικῶν κώμης Πολυδευκίας Ἑρμᾶς Ἑρμᾶ ὑπὲρ ἀποτάκτου τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους ἐπὶ λόγου δραχμὰς ὀκτώ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ η. Μεχεὶρ ι αὐτὸς δραχμὰς τέσσαρας, γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ.