A receipt in which Lysikrates, a soldier (dekanikos) of Zoilos' troop, acknowledges receiving from his tenant Demetrios son of Ptolemaios, of the Epigone, the rent for his allotment: 750 artabas of olyra and hay, as set out in a lease contract. It was drawn up at Phebichis in the Herakleopolite nome in 263 BC.
In English machine translation
In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and his son Ptolemy, year 23, in the priesthood of Kineas son of Alketas, priest of Alexander and the Brother-Sister Gods, the kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos being […] daughter of Polemokrates, in the month Daisios, at Phebichis in the Koites (district). Lysikrates, […]maieus, of the troop of Zoilos, dekanikos, acknowledges that he has received from Demetrios son of Ptolemaios, M[…] of the Epigone, the rents of his own kleros sown in the 21st year for the 22nd year, in all 750 artabas of olyra, and the hay […] according to the contract issued […]
[…] in Herakleopolis […]
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A kleros was a plot of land granted to a soldier-settler, often leased out to others; olyra is a hulled wheat (emmer). The 'Epigone' were descendants of settlers registered as a distinct status group.
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.