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Receipt from Theodora to Andreas for rent in wheat TM 36946HermopolisVI

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A rent receipt in which Theodora, a noblewoman of Hermopolis and daughter of Apollos, acknowledges that her tenant Andreas son of Georgios, from a village in the Hermopolite nome, paid 5/6 of an artaba of wheat as rent for her land. It dates to the 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

† From Theodora, the most noble daughter of Apollos, from the city of the Hermopolites, to Andreas son of Georgios, from the village of Inex[…] in the Hermopolite nome. I have received and been paid in full by you, for the rents of my arouras held by you, one half and one third of an artaba of wheat by the public measure, total 1/2 1/3 artaba of wheat only. Written Epeiph 18, 5th indiction. † I, Theodora daughter of Apollos: the receipt is satisfactory to me as stated above.

The village name is only partly preserved. The amount, a half plus a third of an artaba, totals 5/6 artaba.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for 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 · VI · Hermopolis

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