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A receipt issued by Paramenes of Cyrene, steward of Telestes, acknowledging payment of rent on the plot (kleros) of Protogenes. Dionysia, paying on behalf of someone whose name is partly lost, delivered 400 artabas of olyra, and Kallisthenes delivered 150 artabas of olyra plus a money payment of 151 drachmas 4 obols in place of 70 artabas of wheat. It dates to 28 May 271 BC.
Olyra is a coarse grain, probably emmer, and a kleros is a plot of land held by a settler. The dating formula names the priest of Alexander and the Sibling Gods but omits the canephorus of Arsinoe; the per-artaba price reading is uncertain, since 70 artabas at 2 drachmas 1 obol would not give exactly the total stated.
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.
Receipt for payment of rent, partly in olyra, partly in a money equivalent of wheat, by two farmers. Land appears to be crown land. The protocol contains a mention of the association of the gods Adelphi with Alexander in the Alexandrian cult. Reference to the canephorus of Ars…
βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου ἔτους ιε ἐφʼ ἱερέως πατρόκλου τοῦ Πάτρωνος Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν μηνὸς Δαισίου κ. ὁμολογεῖ Παραμένης Κυρηναῖος οἰκονόμος Τελέστου ἔχειν παρὰ Διονυσίας ὑπὲρ […] δρου ἐς τὰ ἐκφόρια τοῦ Πρωτογένους κλήρου ὀλυρῶν ἀρτάβας υ καὶ παρὰ Καλλισθ…
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