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Receipt for rent on a palm grove at Philadelpheia TM 316222Phildelphia (Arsinoites)28. Nov. - 27. Dez. 239

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A receipt issued by Aurelius Asas son of Psamis and his fellow collectors of money taxes at Philadelpheia to Aurelius Diogenes son of Tourbon. It acknowledges payment of 80 silver drachmas as rent for 3 arouras of palm grove, for the crops of the previous year, paid in the third year of Gordian III (AD 239).

In English machine translation

The Aurelii Asas son of Psamis and associates, collectors of money taxes of the village of Philadelpheia, to Aurelius Diogenes son of Tourbon, from the same village, greetings. You have paid to us the rent for the palm grove of 3 arouras which you harvested, 2 arouras in the place Kalika and 1 aroura in another place called [...] near the village, for the present year 3, for the crops of the past year 2, eighty drachmas of silver, total 80 drachmas. Aurelius Asas, about 30 years old, scar on the right shin. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus, Choiak […].

The name of the second plot's location appears to be missing in the text after 'called'. The collectors (praktores argyrikon) handled money taxes, here collecting rent on what was probably public land.

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 on a Palm Grove). 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.20.2859

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 28. Nov. - 27. Dez. 239 · Phildelphia (Arsinoites)

Αὐρήλιοι Ἀσᾶς Ψάμεως καὶ μέτοχοι πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν κώμης Φιλαδελφείας Αὐρηλίῳ Διογένει Τούρβωνος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης χαίρειν. διέγραψας ἡμῖν τὸν φόρον ὧν ἐκαρπώσω φοινικῶνος ἀρουρῶν γ, ἐν τόπῳ Καλικα ἀρουρῶν β καὶ ἐν ἑτέρῳ τόπῳ ἀρούρης λεγομένῳ περὶ τὴν κώμην ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος…