Church receipt for emphyteutic rent paid by the heirs of Ioannes TM 35960HermopolisVI

A receipt issued by the holy church of Hermopolis to the heirs of a man named Ioannes, acknowledging payment of 6 carats of gold as rent on a hereditary (emphyteutic) lease for the crops of the 13th indiction. The payment was handed to Kosmas, a deputy, and the receipt is endorsed by Julianus, a comes; it dates to the 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

Emphyteusis was a long-term, heritable lease of land obliging the tenant to cultivate it and pay a fixed rent. The abbreviation after Ioannes' name (κωμδ) is uncertain; it may indicate a profession such as comedian (κωμῳδός).

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 Erbpachtzins). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.