Receipt for rent of farmland
The sheet of papyrus is of considerable dimensions, but the writing actually occupies just the top half. It is a receipt of rent for farmland owed to Ptolemaeis, for the years 9-11 of Hadrian.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20996
Receipt for wheat rent paid to Ptolemais for three years TM 20996Tebtynis (Arsinoites)A.D. 128
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A receipt issued by a woman named Ptolemais, daughter of Zeuxis, acknowledging payment of rent in wheat for her farmland covering the 9th, 10th and 11th years of Hadrian. The total is 26 1/2 1/10 artabas of wheat, and the receipt is dated to Hadrian's 12th year (AD 127/128) at Tebtynis.
In English machine translation
Ptolemais daughter of Zeuxis, granddaughter of Herakles (?), […] to […], greetings. I have received from you from my rents for the ninth year and the tenth year, the year of green crops, and likewise for the eleventh year's rents, […] of wheat, twenty-six and a half and a tenth artabas, total 26 1/2 1/10 artabas of wheat.
Year 12 of Hadrianus Caesar the lord […]
The tenth year is described as 'green-crop bearing' (chlorophoros), meaning the land was sown with fodder or green crops that year rather than grain. The name of the tenant who paid 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 Reçu de fermages). 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.fouad.1.55
Πτολεμαεῖς Ζεύξιδος Ἡρακλέους Ε… … χαίρειν. ἔσχον ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκφορίων μου τοῦ ἐνάτου ἔτους καὶ τοῦ δεκάτου ἔτους χλωροφόρου καὶ τοῦ ἑνδεκάτου ἔτους ὁμοίως ἐκφορίων …υ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας εἴκοσι ἓξ ἥμισυ δέκατον γίνονται πυροῦ κϛ 𐅵 δέκατον ἔτους δωδεκάτου Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου[…]