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Church receipts to Leontios for rent on crops of the 12th indiction TM 38861HermopolisVII

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A receipt issued by the Church of Hermopolis through its steward Kollouthos to Leontios, recording three payments in gold carats as rent on the crops of the twelfth indiction. The payments were made in Epeiph and Mesore; the document dates to the 7th century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] † The holy Church of God of Hermopolis, through me, Kollouthos, steward (pronoetes) of the district of the Hermopolite nome, to the lord Leontios. You have paid for the rent of the crops of the twelfth indiction 23 carats of gold, total 23 carats, Alexandrian standard. Written Epeiph 23, indiction 12. † I, Kollouthos, steward, agree to the receipt. † Likewise, for the same, in Mesore, 46 carats of gold, total 46 carats, Alexandrian standard. Written Mesore 4, indiction 12. † I, Kollouthos, steward, agree. † † Likewise, for the same, in Mesore, 23 carats of gold, total 23 carats, Alexandrian standard. Written Mesore […], indiction 12. Kollouthos, steward, agrees. † [verso] † Receipt of the Church for the crops of the 12th indiction.

A pronoetes was an estate steward or manager acting for a large landowner, here the church. The carat (keration) was a fraction of the gold solidus, reckoned here on the Alexandrian standard.

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 · VII · Hermopolis

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