bgu.13.2214
Ἑρμίας Τεσενούφι νομογράφῳ Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου χαίρειν· ἔχω παρά σου ἀφʼ ὧν ὀφείλεις φόρων γραφίου τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος δευτέρου ἔτους Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος καταβολὰς τρεῖς διὰ Ἀραβᾶτος[…] [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9626
Receipt for instalments of rent for the record office of Soknopaiou Nesos TM 9626Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)41 - 42
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A receipt in which Hermias acknowledges to Tesenouphis, the contract scribe (nomographos) of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, payment of three instalments of the rent owed for leasing the village record office in the second year of Claudius (AD 41-42). The payment was made through a certain Arabas; the end of the text is lost.
In English machine translation
Hermias to Tesenouphis, nomographos of Soknopaiou Nesos, greetings. I have received from you, from the rents you owe for the grapheion (record office) for the present second year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, three instalments, through Arabas […]
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The grapheion was the local record office where contracts were drawn up and registered; its operation was leased out, and the nomographos paid rent (phoroi) for it. The number 'three' and the word 'instalments' are partly restored.
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.