Receipt for Rent
Acknowledgment of payment of rent in kind for a land at the village of Herakleia
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12318
Receipt for rent of plots at Herakleia paid by Kallistratos TM 12318ArsinoitesAugust 18, 6 B.C.
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A private receipt (cheirographon) in which a landowner, whose name is lost, acknowledges receiving from Kallistratos son of Kallistratos the rent for small plots near Herakleia farmed by Hermouthes, sown in the 24th year of Augustus. It is dated 18 August 6 BC, in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
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to Kallistratos son of Kallistratos, greetings. I have received from you the rent for the lesser plots around Herakleia which Hermouthes daughter of Psephigeis (?) has farmed, as much as was sown in the 24th year of Caesar, and I make no claim against you.
Year 24 of Caesar, Mesore 25.
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The ekphorion is rent paid in kind on agricultural land; "Caesar" here means Augustus. The beginning with the issuer's name is lost.
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 (Cheirographon)). 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.mich.14.677
[r] [… ? lines lost …] […]…[…]…[…]…[…] Καλλιστράτωι Καλλιστράτου χαίρειν. ἀπέχω παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον ὧν γεγεώργηκεν περὶ μὲν Ἡρακλείαν ἐλασσόνων ἐδαφῶν Ἠρμούτης Ψηφιγεῖδος, ὅσα ἐσπάρησαν ἐν τῶι κδ ἔτει Καίσαρος, καὶ οὐθέν σοι ἐγκαλῶ. ἔτους κδ Καίσαρος, Μεσορὴ κε [v] …