Receipt for rent on 4 1/2 arouras of cleruchic land at Bakchias TM 11997Bacchias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 26, 126 A.D.

Year 10 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, month of Gorpiaios, second day, Epeiph 2, at Bakchias in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. Haryotes son of Alexas son of Alexas, aged about 64, with a mole on the forehead on the right and on the left foot, acknowledges to Horos son of Horos son of Horos, aged about [52, with a scar on the] left eyebrow, that he, the acknowledging party, has received from him the rent for the present tenth [year of Hadrian] Caesar the lord for the 4 1/2 arouras of cleruchic land, or however many they may be, in one parcel, in the plain [called] […]lon, which he farms [for Haryotes] near the aforementioned village of Bakchias, Horos having retained in his own hands the seed for the sowing of the coming eleventh year of Hadrian Caesar the lord; and that the acknowledging party makes no claim against Horos concerning any matter whatsoever up to the present day in any way or on any pretext, the lease [of the cleruchic land] remaining valid in all its terms. Writer for the acknowledging party: Heliodoros son of Heliodoros, aged about 52, [with a scar on the right cheek]. I, Haryotes son of Alexas son of Alexas, acknowledge [that I have received from] Horos son of Horos the rent for the present [tenth] year of Hadrian the lord for the 4 1/2 arouras of [cleruchic land near Bakchias] which he farms for me, Horos [keeping] with himself the seed for the coming [year], the lease remaining valid as [stated above]. I, Heliodoros son of Heliodoros, wrote for [him, since he does not know letters]. Registered through the [record office] at Bakchias.