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Receipt for wheat rent paid by the farmer Pyoris to Artemidora TM 9815Arsinoites30. Juni 95

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Receipt issued by Artemidora, acting with her guardian Demetrios, to the farmer Pyoris for 34 artabas of wheat paid on account of rent for the 14th year, reserving her claim to the remaining 10 artabas of wheat and 16 drachmas owed. Written by Demetrios because Artemidora was illiterate, in the Arsinoite nome on 30 June AD 95.

In English machine translation

Artemidora daughter of Ptolemaios, with her guardian Demetrios son of Skailos, to Pyoris, farmer, greetings. I have received from you, out of the rents you owe me for the fourteenth year, on account, 34 artabas of wheat, total 34 artabas, you having received the seed for the sowing of the coming fifteenth year, without prejudice to my claim for the remaining amounts you owe me of the same rents, 10 artabas of wheat, and of the money debt 16 drachmas, total of arrears 16 drachmas. I, Demetrios, wrote on behalf of Artemidora, who does not know letters. Year 14 of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, Epeiph 6.

The 'guardian' (kyrios) was the male representative a woman needed for legal transactions. 'Ekphoria' are rents in kind paid by a tenant farmer.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 30. Juni 95 · Arsinoites

Ἀρτεμιδώρα Πτολεμαίου μετὰ κυρίου Δημητρίου τοῦ Σκαίλου Πυῶρι γεωργῶι, χαίρειν. ἔχω παρὰ σοῦ ἀφʼ ὧν ὀφείλεις μοι ἐκφορίων τοῦ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτου ἔτους ἐπὶ λόγου πυροῦ ἀρτάβας τριάκοντα τέσσαρας, γίνονται ἀρτάβαι λδ ἀπέχοντος σοῦ τὰ σπέρματα τῆς τοῦ εἰσιόντος πεντεκαιδεκάτου ἔτους…