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Receipt for money rent on grain land near Syron TM 21995Oxyrhynchos25. Mai 204

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A receipt issued by the siblings Zoilos and Sosia of Antinoopolis, acting through Zoilos, to their tenant Didymos son of Theon of Oxyrhynchus, acknowledging payment of 1,000 drachmas of money rent for grain land near the village of Syron. They reserve their claim to the wheat and hay still owed for the same year. It was written on 25 May 204 at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

Zoilos and Sosia, both children of Zoilos and of their mother Aelia Primigenia also called Premestine, both Antinoites, through me Zoilos, to Didymos son of Theon, by adoption son of Didymos, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, greetings. We have received from you the 1,000 drachmas due to us for the money rent of the grain land which you farm belonging to us and to our brother on the father's side Dionysammon near the village of Syron, {grain} our claim remaining in force regarding the wheat owed to us on deposit and the hay, all for the present twelfth year. The receipt is valid, being in my own hand, Zoilos. Year twelve of the lords Emperors Severus and Antoninus ⟦and Geta⟧ Caesars Augusti, Pachon 30.

The name of Geta was struck out in the dating formula, a result of the damnatio memoriae after his murder in 211. The phrase 'en themati' (wheat owed 'on deposit') is a technical term for grain held as a deposit or security.

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 · 25. Mai 204 · Oxyrhynchos

Ζωίλος καὶ Σωσία ἀμφότεροι Ζωίλου μητρὸς Αἰλίας Πριμιγενίηςτῆς καὶ Πρεμεστίνης ἀμφότεροι Ἀντινοεῖς διʼ ἐμοῦ Ζωίλου Διδύμῳ Θέωνος θέσει Διδύμου ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως χαίρειν. ἀπέσχομεν παρὰ σοῦ τὰς ἐπιβαλλούσας ἡμῖν ὑπὲρ ἀργυρικοῦ φόρου ὧν γεωργεῖς ἡμῶν καὶ τοῦ ὁμοπατρίου ἀδελφοῦ Δ…