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Receipt issued by the landowner Aelius Arsinoos to a tenant farmer for the rent on land he leased near Euhemeria in the Arsinoite nome, covering the 18th regnal year. It is dated in Mecheir of year 19 of Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta, that is early AD 211.
The tenant's name is lost, and much of the wording, including the village name, is restored by the editor. The rent (ekphorion) was the annual payment, often in kind, due from a tenant.
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 Pachtzins). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Αἴλιος Ἀρσίνοος[…] γεωργῷ χαίρειν. ἀπέσχον παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον ὧν γεωργεῖς μου ἀρουρῶν περὶ κώμην Εὐημέρειαν τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος ὑπὲρ τοῦ ιη ἔτους, κυρίας οὔσης τῆς μισθώσεως. ἔτους ιθ Λουκίου Σεπτιμίου Σευήρου Εὐσεβοῦς Περτίνακος καὶ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνείνου Εὐσεβοῦς Σεβαστῶ…
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