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Receipt for rent in wheat paid in advance for a cleruchic allotment TM 2683Tholthis (Oxyrhynchites)215 - 214 v.Chr.

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A double contract in which Nomos, a Macedonian cleruch holding 30 arouras, acknowledges receiving wheat from his tenant Aristolochos as advance rent on his allotment, to be credited against the following year's rent, with a penalty of 10 drachmas per artaba if not credited. Written at Tholthis in the Oxyrhynchite nome in the 8th year of Ptolemy IV (215-214 BC).

In English machine translation

[inner text] [… exacting payment according to the] ordinance. This contract [shall be valid wherever it is produced. Witnesses …] [outer text] In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Berenike, gods Euergetai, in the eighth year, when the priest of Alexander and the gods Soteres and the gods Adelphoi and the gods Euergetai and the gods Philopatores was Ptolemy son of Ptolemy son of Stasikrates, and the kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos was Arsinoe daughter of Sosibios, in the month Hyperberetaios, at Tholthis in the Oxyrhynchite nome. Nomos, Macedonian, 30-aroura cleruch of those not yet under a commander, acknowledges that he has received from Aristolochos son of Stratios, Thracian of the epigone, […]ty artabas of wheat towards the rent of his allotment for the tenth year, according to the contract of lease of the allotment which is deposited with the contract-keeper Ptolemaios, Bithynian, 70-aroura holder of the troop of Nikodemos. Nomos shall credit this grain to Aristolochos towards the rent of the eleventh year. If he does not credit it, but Aristolochos is made to pay this grain by Nomos or by anyone else in any manner whatsoever, or if some royal impediment arises preventing this grain from being credited to Aristolochos on behalf of Nomos, Nomos shall pay to Aristolochos as the price of each artaba of wheat which is exacted or not credited to him 10 drachmas, and Aristolochos shall have the right of execution against Nomos, exacting payment according to the ordinance. This contract shall be valid wherever it is produced. Witnesses. [verso] [… 4 lines lost …] Diokles son of Hippolysos, Cyrenaean of the epigone

The text mentions both the tenth and eleventh years for the rent, which the editor's restorations reconcile as advance payment; the exact number of artabas is lost. 'Of the epigone' denotes descendants of soldiers registered by ethnic origin.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung über vorausbezahlten Pachtzins). 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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bgu.10.1959

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 215 - 214 v.Chr. · Tholthis (Oxyrhynchites)

[r,int] πράσσοντι κατὰ τὸ διάγραμμα. ἡ δὲ συγγραφὴ ἥδε κυρία ἔστω οὗ ἂν ἐπιφέρηται. μάρτυρες [r,ext] Βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Βερενίκης θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν ἔτους ὀγδόου ἐφʼ ἱερέως Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Στασικράτους Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ θεῶν Σωτήρων καὶ θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν…