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Receipt of a chief guard for customary dues on arouras TM 37508Herakleopolites ?VII

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Receipt in which Horigenes, chief guard of the plain south of Peempth, acknowledges full payment of a customary due on land from the son of Anis, a priest and steward of the holy (shrine or monastery of) Apa Isaak. It dates to the 7th century AD, probably from the Herakleopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] I, Horigenes, chief guard (protophylax) of the plain to the south of Peempth, have received and been paid in full by you, the son of Anis, priest and steward of the holy Apa Isaak, for the customary payment (synetheia) of our arouras. I received […] [… ? lines lost …] [verso] [… ? lines lost …] † For the […] [… 1 line lost …]

Synetheia was a customary fee or perquisite rather than a regular tax. The Greek may mean either that the son of Anis is the priest and steward, or that Anis himself held those titles.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung). 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 · VII · Herakleopolites ?

[r] ἔσχον καὶ ἐπληρώθην ἐγὼ Ὡριγένης πρωτοφύλαξ πεδιάδος ἀπὸ νότου Πεεμπθ παρὰ σοῦ υἱοῦ Ἄνι πρεσβυτέρου οἰκονόμου τοῦ ἁγίου ἄπα Ἰσαὰκ ὑπὲρ συνηθείας ἀρουρῶν ἡμῶν. ἐδεξάμην[…] [… ? lines lost …] [v] [… ? lines lost …] † ὑπὲρ τοῦ … [… 1 line lost …]