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Receipt for rent paid by Georgios from Kalantion TM 36947Hermopolites (?)VI

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A sixth-century receipt, probably from the Hermopolite nome, acknowledging payment of rent for the eighth indiction. Georgios from Kalantion paid, through the estate manager Viktor, 5 gold solidi less 6 carats each (30 carats in all), without the extra charge.

In English machine translation

(From) Georgios from Kalantion, through Viktor the pronoetes […]. I have received from you, from the rents in kind (?) of the produce of the present eighth indiction, 5 solidi of gold, less 6 carats each, without the extra charge, total 5 solidi of gold less 30 carats, without the extra charge, only. Written Hathyr 14, 8th indiction, and for your security I have made this receipt for you as aforesaid. […] †

The pronoetes was an estate manager or agent. Solidi paid "less so many carats" were coins reckoned below full weight. The paramythia was a supplementary charge on the payment.

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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p.lond.5.1781

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

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