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A receipt recording that the elders of the village of Soknopaiou Nesos paid 443 drachmas 3 obols, through Sotas, as rent for sheep pasturage to Theoninos alias Ptolemaios and his fellow lessees of imperial estate land. It is dated 9 May 194 in the reign of Septimius Severus.
The ousiac estates were properties confiscated or inherited by the emperor and leased out to contractors. The 'rent on sheep' probably refers to a charge for grazing flocks on estate land.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtzinsquittung für Schafweide). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἔτους β Λουκίου Σεπτιμίου Σεουήρου Περτίνακος Σεβαστοῦ, Παχὼν ιδ. διέγραψαν εἰς τὸν Θεωνείνου τοῦ καὶ Πτολ καὶ τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ μισθωτῶν οὐσιακῶν κτημάτων …α τρ… […]… πρεσβύτεροι ΣοκνοπαίουΝήσου ὑπὲρ β ἔτους φόρου προβάτων διὰ Σώτου δραχμὰς τετρακοσίας τεσσεράκοντα τρεῖς τριώβολον, γ…
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