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Receipt for rent of a camel-stable in the Cavalry Camp quarter TM 20388Oxyrhynchos4. Sept. 263

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A rent receipt in which Aurelius Theon and his sister Sarapous acknowledge receiving 220 drachmas from Aurelius Isidoros as rent for a camel-stable he leases from them in the Cavalry Camp quarter of Oxyrhynchus, covering Phamenoth to Mesore of the previous year. It was written on 4 September 263 in the reign of Gallienus.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Theon also called Eudaimon, surnamed Aristion, and his sister Sarapous also called Agathoklia, both children of Aristion and however they were styled, to Aurelius Isidoros, greetings. We acknowledge that we have received from you the rent of the camel-stable of ours which you hold on lease in the Cavalry Camp quarter, for the period from Phamenoth to Mesore of the past 10th year, amounting to 220 drachmas, our claim remaining to us for all the rents from the present month Thoth onward in accordance with the lease. The receipt is valid, and in answer to the formal question we gave our assent. Year 11 of Imperator Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus Germanicus Maximus Pius Felix Augustus, Thoth 6.

The Cavalry Camp (Hippeon Parembole) was a named quarter (amphodon) of Oxyrhynchus. The lessors reserve their right to rents due from Thoth of the new year onward.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipts). 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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p.oxy.6.964

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 4. Sept. 263 · Oxyrhynchos

Αὐρήλιος Θέων ὁ καὶ Εὐδαίμων ἐπικαλούμενος Ἀριστίων καὶ ἡ ἀδελφὴ Σαραποῦς ἡ καὶ Ἀγαθόκλια ἀμφότεροι Ἀριστίωνος καὶ ὡς ἐχρημάτιζεν Αὐρηλίῳ Ἰσιδώρῳ χαίρειν. ὁμολογοῦμεν ἀπεσχηκέναι παρὰ σοῦ τὰ ἐνοίκια οὗ ἔχεις ἡμῶν ἐν μισθώσει καμηλῶνος ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Ἱππέων Παρεμβολῆς τῶν ἀπὸ Φαμενὼθ…