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Receipt for the sale of grazing rights near Theadelphia TM 9814Polydeukia (Arsinoites, Ägypten)25. Juli - 29. Aug. 95

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A receipt drawn up at Polydeukia in the Arsinoite nome in AD 95, in which the farmer Onnophris son of Patynis acknowledges payment from Areios for letting his sheep graze the fodder on land Onnophris farms near Theadelphia. The amount included 4 silver drachmas; the end of the document is lost.

In English machine translation

Year fourteen of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, month Kaisareios […], Sebaste day, at Polydeukia in the division of Themistos of the Arsinoite nome. Onnophris son of Patynis, aged about 29, with a scar on the little finger of the left hand, acknowledges to Areios son of L[…]phis, aged about 25, with a scar by the left ear, that he has received from him from hand to hand the price for the grazing by his sheep of the fodder on the plots which Onnophris farms near Theadelphia in the same division, [belonging to] De[…]pion, of 1 aroura of fodder or however many there may be, from the present fourteenth year, [… ] 4 silver drachmas […] to Onnophris himself […] […] [… lines lost …]

Kaisareios is the Roman name for the Egyptian month Mesore; a Sebaste day was a day honoring the emperor. The total price is partly lost, only "four" survives.

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 Sale of Grazing Rights). 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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bgu.15.2551

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 25. Juli - 29. Aug. 95 · Polydeukia (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

ἔτους τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Δομιτιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ μηνὸς Καισαρείου …[…] Σεβαστῇ ἐν Πολυδευκίᾳ τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογεῖ Ὀννῶφρις Πατύνεως ὡς ἐτῶν εἴκοσι ἐννέα οὐλὴ δακτύλῳ μικρῶι χειρὸς ἀριστερᾶς Ἀρείωι Λ[…]φεως ὡς ἐτῶν εἴκοσι…