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Receipt for emphyteutic rent paid by the deacon Theodore to the heirs of Phoibammon TM 82277HermopolitesVII

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A Coptic receipt in which Ammone and Zacharias, heirs of the late Phoibammon, acknowledge payment from the deacon Apa Theodore of the annual rent for his emphyteutic (long-term hereditary) lease of their quarter share of an estate, with its waters and waste lands. The rent was paid in wine and produce for the fifteenth indiction year; Ammone also guarantees against any claim by Zacharias.

In English machine translation

† We, the heirs of the late Phoibammon, through us, I, Ammone, and Zacharias, write to our brother the deacon Apa Theodore: We have received and been paid in full by you the rent (paktos) which you pay to us for our fourth share in the estate of the place of Narsena (?) and our fourth share in the waters and the wastelands, according to the measure of your emphyteutic holding, namely: 40 lahe of wine, and the fruit (?) according to the measure of the threshing floor (?) of the sea (?), [for] this year, the fifteenth indiction. For your security, therefore, we have drawn up this receipt for you, that we consent to it. † † I, Ammone, the first, write: I consent to the receipt and I guarantee you against claims on behalf of Zacharias for his share. †

Emphyteusis was a long-term or perpetual lease of land; the rent is called paktos. Some phrases in the description of the produce ("ebēne", "the measure of the threshing floor of the sea") are obscure and the translation there is tentative.

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 Erbpachtzins). 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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