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Church receipt to Georgios and Phoibammon for fixed rent TM 35959HermopolisVI

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A receipt issued by a church to Georgios and Phoibammon for payment of 14 1/2 carats toward a fixed rent (apotaktos), second instalment. It is signed by the church administrator Isak and dates from the 6th century AD at Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

From the holy church to Georgios and Phoibammon. You have paid for the fixed rent of the 14th indiction, second instalment, of the 13th indiction, fourteen and a half carats by exchange reckoning, (total) 14 1/2 carats by exchange reckoning. Choiak …… indiction […] Isak, administrator, agrees as aforesaid.

Apotaktos is a fixed, pre-agreed rent or payment; the mention of both the 14th and 13th indictions is as written. 'By exchange' (synallage) refers to a money reckoning standard for the carats.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung über Pachtzins). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

bgu.12.2192

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI · Hermopolis

παρὰ τῆς ἁγίας ἐκκλησίας Γεωργίῳ καὶ Φοιβάμμωνι. δεδώκατε ὑπὲρ ἀποτάκτου ιδ ἰνδικτίονος δευτέρας καταβολῆς ιγ ἰνδικτίονος κεράτια δεκατέσσαρα ἥμισυ συναλλαγῇ, κεράτια ιδ 𐅵 συναλλαγῇ Χοιὰκ …… ἰνδικτίονος […]… Ἰσὰκ διοικητὴς στοιχεῖ ὡς πρόκειται.