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A receipt in which the landowner Polydeukes acknowledges receiving from his tenant farmer Tothes, through an intermediary Flavius Herakleios, 62 silver drachmas as money rent for 1 1/2 arouras of land. He states that the public taxes on the land are his own responsibility. Written in the Hermopolite nome in AD 145.
A kleros was an allotment of land originally assigned to a settler, here identified by the name Libys. The scribe wrote the word for arouras twice.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ricevuta di affitto di terreno). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Πολυδεύκης Πολυδεύκους Τοθῆτι Τερεῦτος γεωργῷ χαίρειν. ἀπέχω παρὰ σοῦ διὰ Φλαυίου Ἡρακλήου τὸν ἀργυρικὸν φόρον ἣν γεωργεῖς μου ἀρούρης μίας ἡμίσους ἐκ τοῦ Λίβυος κλήρου κωμογραμματείας Βῶυ γενήματος τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ὀγδόου ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ἑξήκοντ…
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