Receipt for Rent
Receipt for rent paid in advance
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21380
Receipt for advance rent on 2 arouras of rich land at Aphrodite TM 21380Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome, province of the Lower Thebais, Thebais, EgyptJuly 9, 540 or 555 A.D.
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A receipt in which the landowner Paulos son of Ioannes acknowledges that Phoibammon son of Triadelphos of Aphrodite has paid in advance the rent, seed and irrigation costs for 2 arouras of rich land on the farm called Euethiou, which Phoibammon will cultivate for the harvest of the fifth indiction. It was drawn up by the lawyer Pilatos and witnessed at Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
† Paulos son of Ioannes, his mother being Thekla, landowner, † to Phoibammon son of Triadelphos, from Aphrodite. I have received and been paid in full by you the rent, the seed and the irrigation for 2 arouras of rich land, and you may take these from my landowner's share of the farm called Euethiou, for the crop, God willing, of the fifth indiction, the cultivation being carried out by you, and when the season comes you are to carry off the produce and chaff arising from them; and I have issued to you this receipt as aforesaid. Epeiph 15, fourth indiction, for the aforesaid 2 arouras of rich land.
☧ I, Paulos son of Ioannes, the aforesaid, agree as aforesaid. ☧ I, Aurelius Apollos son of Hermauos, witness as aforesaid. † Written by me, Pilatos, lawyer †.
[verso]
Receipt † of Paulos son of Ioannes, landowner †.
The text is dated only by indiction (Epeiph 15 of the fourth indiction), so the year could be AD 540 or 555. 'Rich land' renders a Greek term for fertile land, probably well-watered or manured.
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.
p.mich.13.668
[r] † Παῦλος Ἰωάννου ἐκ μητρὸς Θέκλας κτήτωρ † Φοιβάμμωνι υἱῷ Τριαδέλφου ἀπὸ Ἀφροδίτης. ἐδεξάμην καὶ ἐπληρώθην παρὰ σοῦ τοῦ τε φόρου καὶ τῆς σπορᾶς καὶ τῆς ἀρδεύσεως ἀρούρας δύο ἐν λιπαρᾷ γῇ καὶ ταύτας ἐξεῖναί σοι λαβεῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ γεουχικοῦ μου μέρους τοῦ γεωργίου καλουμένου Εὐηθίο…