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A receipt from Hermopolis in which Basileides son of Phoibammon acknowledges that Georgios son of Silvanus has paid him his one-sixth share of the rent from properties of the late Kyrilla and Maria, a nun, for the crops of the fifth indiction. He renounces any further claim and signs the receipt.
Addressing Georgios as 'brother' is a common courtesy and need not mean kinship. The text dates itself only by indiction year, so the exact year is unknown, though the formulary points to the Byzantine period.
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.
† παρὰ Βασιλείδου Φοιβάμμωνος ἀπὸ Ἑρμουπόλεως τῷ ἀδελφῷ Γεωργίῳ Σιλβανοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. πεπλήρωμαι παρὰ σοῦ τοῦ φόρου τῶν μακαρίων Κυρίλλας καὶ Μαρίας καρπῶν πέμπτηςἰνδικτίονος ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἐμοῦ ἕκτου μέρους τῶν αὐτῶν ἐκφορίων ἔν τε Ἑρμουπόλει καὶ ἐν κώμῃ ὑπὲρ τῶν αὐτῶν Κυρίλλ…
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