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Receipt for rent of a garden and storehouse issued by a priest of Souchos TM 22716unbekannt12. Apr. 176

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A receipt issued by Horos alias Horion, a stolistes (robing priest) of the crocodile god Souchos, to his lessee Heron son of Achillas, acknowledging payment of rent for a garden and for a storehouse. It is dated 12 April 176, in the reign of Marcus Aurelius.

In English machine translation

Horos, also called Horion, son of Onnophris, also called Chairemon, stolistes of Souchos the great, great god, and of the gods sharing his temple, and however I am styled, to Heron son of Achillas, lessee, greetings. I have received from you the rent of the garden for the fifteenth year, and I have received for the rent of the storehouse from Pachon of the fifteenth year to Pharmouthi of the sixteenth year. Year 16 of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord, Pharmouthi 17.

A stolistes was the priest responsible for dressing the cult statues of the gods. The Greek thesauros can mean a granary or storehouse.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 12. Apr. 176

Ὧρος ἐπικεκλημένος Ὡρίων Ὀννώφριος τοῦ καὶ Χαιρήμονος στολιστὴς Σούχου θεοῦ μεγάλου μεγάλου καὶ τῶν συννάων θεῶν καὶ ὡς χρηματίζω Ἥρωνει Ἀχιλλᾶτος μισθωτῇ χαίρειν· ἀπέχω παρὰ σοῦ τὸν φόρον τοῦ κήπου ὑπὲρ τοῦ πεντεκαιδεκάτου ἔτους καὶ ἀπέχω ὑπὲρ φόρου τοῦ θησαυροῦ ἀπὸ Παχὼν τοῦ ἔτ…