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Receipt for rent in wheat for a plot at Bakchias TM 11994Bacchias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMay 18, 122 A.D.

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A notarial receipt from Bakchias in the Fayum, dated 18 May 122, in which the landowner Haryotes son of Alexas acknowledges receiving from his tenant Horos son of Horos the rent of 16 artabas of wheat for 4 1/2 arouras for Hadrian's sixth year. The tenant has retained 4 artabas of wheat as seed for next year's sowing, and the lease remains in force; both illiterate parties signed through scribes.

In English machine translation

[recto] In the sixth year of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, on the twenty-third of the month Germanikeios, Pachon 23, at Bakchias in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. Haryotes son of Alexas, aged about 60, with a scar on the left foot, acknowledges to Horos son of Horos, also called Imesbailis, farmer, aged about 48, with a scar on the left eyebrow, that he, the acknowledging party, has received from him the rent for the current sixth year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, for the plot of 4 1/2 arouras which Horos farms from this Haryotes near the aforementioned village, 16 artabas of wheat by the six-choinix measure, Horos himself having kept back for himself the seed for the sowing of the coming 7th year, 4 artabas of wheat, the lease remaining valid. Subscriber for the acknowledging party: Heliodoros son of Heliodoros, aged about 49, with a scar on the right cheek; for the other: Ammonios son of Dioskoros, aged about 45, with a scar on the forehead at the right. I, Haryotes son of Alexas, acknowledge that I have received from Horos the rent for the current year for the 4 1/2 arouras which he farms from me near the village, 16 artabas of wheat, he himself having the seed for the coming seventh year, 4 artabas of wheat, the lease remaining valid as stated above. Heliodoros son of Heliodoros wrote for him, since he does not know letters. I, Horos son of Horos: the receipt has been made to me as stated above. Ammonios son of Dioskoros wrote for him, since he does not know letters. Registered through the record office at Bakchias. [verso] Acknowledgment of Haryotes to Horos, receipt for rent.

The lease to which this receipt refers is preserved separately as P.Mich. III 184. Germanikeios is an honorific month name equivalent to the Egyptian month Pachon.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Rent). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

Receipt for Rent

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 114 · May 18, 122 A.D. · Bacchias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Receipt for rent in kind issued by Haryotes, son of Alexas, to his tenant Horos, son of Horos, for the payment of the rent of the plot cultivated by the latter for the sixth year of Hadrian under the terms of the lease between the two parties published as P.Mich. III, 184

p.mich.3.196

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 18. Mai 122 · Bakchias (Arsinoites)

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