Receipt for Rent
An acknowledgment of payment of rent by Ptolemaeus, father of Isidorus, as tenant and cultivator of one aroura of land over a period of four years at the rate of two artabas of wheat per year.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 17380
Receipt for wheat rent on one aroura paid by Ptolemaios TM 17380Kom Aushim (Karanis)May 9th(?), 276 A.D.
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A receipt issued to Ptolemaios, a tenant farmer at Karanis, acknowledging payment of rent in wheat for one aroura of land: 6 artabas for years 4 to 6 and 2 artabas for year 1. It is dated Pachon 14 of the first year of the emperor Tacitus, AD 276.
In English machine translation
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to Ptolemaios, [farmer], greeting.
We have received from [you the] rent of the 1 aroura of ours [which you farm], for the produce of year 4 and year 5 and year 6, three years, 6 artabas of wheat,
in full.
And likewise for the produce of year 1, 2 artabas of wheat, total 2 artabas of wheat,
in full.
Year 1 of our lord Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Pachon 14.
The regnal years 4 to 6 presumably belong to an earlier reign (likely Aurelian), while year 1 is that of Tacitus; the rate works out to 2 artabas per aroura per year. The names of the issuers at the start are 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). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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………[…] γεων διʼ ἐμοῦ Λ…[…] …π…ημη…[…] Πτολεμαίῳ γεωργῷ χαίρειν. ἀπέσχαμεν παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον ἧς γεωργεῖς ἡμῶν ἀρούρης μιᾶς ὑπὲρ γενήματος δ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους καὶ ϛ ἔτους ἐτῶν τριῶν πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ἓξ πλήρης. καὶ ὁμοίως γενήματος α ἔτους πυροῦ ἀρτάβας δύο, γίνονται πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι β…