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Receipt for money paid in place of dates by the heirs of Premtates TM 29959ThebenII - III

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A short ostracon receipt from Thebes recording a payment of 2 drachmas 2 obols made on behalf of the heirs of Premtates son of Horos. The money was paid as the cash equivalent of dates owed from the produce of year 3. It is dated Pauni 21 of year 4, in the 2nd or 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

Pauni 21 of year 4. In the name of the heirs of Premtates son of Horos, for the price of dates of the produce of year 3: two drachmas 2 obols, total 2 drachmas 2 obols. I, Hera(…), have signed.

The payment is an adaeratio: a tax due in kind (dates, here 'phoinikes') paid instead in money. The signer's name is abbreviated as Hera(…), possibly Herakleides or similar.

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 Adaeratio of Palms). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II - III · Theben

Παῦνι κα τοῦ δ ἔτους ὀνόματος κληρονόμων Πρεμτάτου Ὥρου ὑπὲρ τιμῆς φοινίκων γενήματος γ ἔτους δραχμὰς δύο διώβολον, γίνονται δραχμαὶ β διώβολον. Ἡρα σεσημείωμαι.