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Receipt for land rent from Georgios son of Isakios TM 34708Oberägypten (?)IV - VII

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A receipt in which Georgios son of Isakios acknowledges full payment of the rent share due from a cultivator, Ne...leas son of Joseph, for land farmed in the second indiction. Dated Mecheir 15, it probably comes from Upper Egypt in the 4th to 7th century AD.

In English machine translation

I, Georgios son of Isakios, have received and been paid in full by you your share of the rent from the arouras cultivated under you, Ne...leas son of Joseph, from the produce of the second indiction, and I have no claim against you, and to Horuonchios (?) I have issued the receipt as set out above. Georgios ... Mecheir 15, indiction [2].

The rent term ekphorion means a rent paid in kind or money for leased land. The expansion of the abbreviation in line 7 as a place or person name Horuonchios is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · Oberägypten (?)

Γεώργιος Ἰσακίου ἐσεδεξάμην καὶ ἐπληρώθην παρὰ σοῦ τὸ μέρος σοῦ ἐκφορίου ἀπὸ τῶν ἀρουρῶν τῶν ὑπό σε Νε…λεα τὸν Ἰώσηφ γεωργημένων γενήματος δευτέρας ἰνδικτίονος καὶ οὐδένα λόγον ἔχω πρός σε καὶ εἰς Ὡρουώγχιον πεποίημαι τὴν ἀποχὴν ὡς πρόκειται. Γεώργιος … Μεχεὶρ ιε ἰνδικτίονος β.