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Receipt for rent on an emphyteutic lease paid by the heirs of Abraamios TM 36873HermopolisVI - Anfang VII

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A receipt issued by the heirs of Secundilla of Hermopolis to the heirs of Abraamios of Tanameu, acknowledging full payment of the rent on a hereditary (emphyteutic) lease for the fifteenth indiction, amounting to 1 gold solidus and 12 carats. It ends with a Coptic-Greek subscription by Gabrielia and has a docket on the back. It dates to the 6th or early 7th century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] † From the heirs of Secundilla, of Hermopolis, to the heirs of Abraamios, kas(?), of Tanameu. You have given and paid in full the rent of the emphyteutic holding for the produce of the fifteenth indiction: one gold solidus of full weight and twelve carats, full. Total: gold solidus 1, carats 12, full; which has also been credited to us from the embole of the fifteenth indiction through the most illustrious […], assistant of the accounts office. And for your security we have made for you this present receipt of full payment, as stated above †. † I, Gabrielia, agree † [verso] Receipt of the heirs of Secundilla for the emphyteutic holding of the 15th indiction: gold solidus 1, carats 12.

Emphyteusis was a long-term hereditary lease with an obligation to cultivate; the payment was apparently credited against the embole, the grain levy for Constantinople. The abbreviation 'kas' after Abraamios is unexplained.

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 Zahlung des Erbpachtzinses). 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 · VI - Anfang VII · Hermopolis

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