One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 33540

Receipt for rent of 2 1/2 arouras paid in gold solidi TM 33540unbekanntIV - VII

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Fragment of a receipt in which several persons acknowledge having received from a tenant the rent for 2 1/2 arouras of land, paid in or valued as flax, amounting to 2 gold solidi, for the 5th indiction. They guarantee against any later claim by one of them.

In English machine translation

[…] […] to you (?) […] We have received from you the rents of the two and a half arouras, in flax stalks (?), that is, 2 gold solidi. And if anyone of us should bring a claim against those belonging to you concerning the same two gold solidi of the 5th indiction, we shall be liable for their payment through […] […]

The phrase 'en linokalames' (in flax stalks) is grammatically irregular; it may indicate the land was sown with flax or that rent was reckoned in flax. The guarantee clause is also awkwardly worded and its exact sense is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment containing receipt of 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · IV - VII

[… ? lines lost …] δ[…]ρε σο…… ἐσχήκαμεν παρά σου τοὺς φόρους τῶν δύο ἥμισυ ἀρουρῶν ἐν λινοκαλάμης τοῦ τουτέστιν χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια δύο· ἐὰν δέ τις ἐξ ἡμῶν παραβάλῃ τοὺς διαφέροντάς σοι περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν δύο χρυσίνων τῆς ε ἰνδικτίωνος, ὑπεύθυνοι ἐσόμεθα τῇ τούτων καταβολῇ διὰ τοῦ [… …