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Receipt for rent in wheat and barley on land at Phthla TM 19720Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

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A receipt issued by Flavius Kollouthos, a scriniarius (official clerk), through his rent-collector Apollos, to Apollos son of Dioskoros, paid through his son Menas, acknowledging full payment in wheat and barley of the rent on unirrigated land near the village of Phthla for the harvest of a sixth indiction. It comes from Aphrodites Kome in the Antaiopolite nome.

In English machine translation

† Flavius Kollouthos, scriniarius, through me, Apollos, rent-collector, to Apollos son of Dioskoros, through Menas his son, greetings. I have received and been paid in full by you the rent of the arouras held by you of the allotment of Piase in the plain of the village of Phthla, called Lemlim, unirrigated land, in both wheat and barley, in accordance with the lease, for the produce of the sixth indiction, in full, and for your security I have made this receipt of full payment, as aforesaid. ☧ Flavius Kollouthos, scriniarius, through me, Apollos, rent-collector: it is satisfactory to me as aforesaid. I, Aurelius Apollos son of Josephios, having been asked, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters. †

The payer Apollos son of Dioskoros is probably the father of the well-known Dioskoros of Aphrodito, which would place the text in the 6th century AD. A scriniarius was a clerk in the late Roman administration; the logophoros was an agent collecting payments.

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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

† Φλαύιος Κόλλουθος σκρινιάριος διʼ ἐμοῦ Ἀπολλῶτος λογοφόρου Ἀπολλῶτι Διοσκόρου διὰ Μηνᾶ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ χαίρειν. ἐδεξάμην καὶ ἐπληρώθην παρὰ σοῦ τὸν φόρον τῶν ὑπὸ σὲ ἀρουρῶν κλήρου Πιασε πεδίου κώμης Φθλᾶ καλουμένου Λεμλιμ ἀνύδρου ἔν τε σίτῳ καὶ κριθαῖς ἀκολούθως τῇ μισθώσει ὑπὲρ γεν…