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p.lond.5.1770 Hermopolites

Lease. Land via HGV-meta

Five-year lease of unirrigated land at Enseu. A lease in which Menas, a farmer from the village of Enseu in the Hermopolite nome, takes on a plot of about 1 5/8 arouras of unirrigated land for five years from the twelfth indiction. He promises a wheat rent delivered to the lessors' house in Hermopolis, plus money, cheeses and chaff, and the deed is signed by a scribe for the illiterate lessee, three witnesses and the notary Menas. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] [… ? lines lost …] ἀπὸ κώμης Ἐνσεῦ τοῦ Ἑρμουπολίτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογῶ ἐγὼ ὁ προγεγραμμένος Μηνᾶς γεωργὸς ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐθαιρέτως μεμισθῶσθαι παρʼ ὑμῶν ἐπὶ πενταετῆ χρόνον λογιζόμενονἀπὸ καρπῶν τῆς σὺν Θεῷ εἰσιούσηςδωδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν ὑμῖν ἄρουραν μίαν ἥμισυ ὄγδοον […] πλέω ἔλαττον ἄνυδρον διακειμένην ἐν τόπῳ καλουμένῳ Γ…ξια ἐν πεδίοις κώμης[…] εἰς σπορὰν καὶ κατάθεσιν καρπῶν ὧν ἂν αἱρῶμαι ἑκάστης ἀρούρης γεωμετρίας φόρου καθʼ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν τῷ συμβρόχῳ σίτου ἀρτάβ[…]καὶ τῷ ἀβρόχῳ ὃ μὴ εἴη τοῦ τρίτου μέρους τοῦ προειρημένου φόρου, ὅνπερ φόρον νέον καθαρὸν κεκοσκινευμένον μέτρῳ Ἀθηναίῳ ἀποδώσω καὶ μετρήσω ὑμῖν ἐν μηνὶ[…] καὶ ἀποκαταστήσω τὸν αὐτὸν φόρον εἰς τὸν οἶκον ὑμῶν ἐν Ἑρμουπόλει ἰδίοις μου ζῴοις καὶ ἀναλώμασιν ἐν καιρῷ τῆς ἀποδόσεως τῶν δημοσίων καὶ[…] μίαν ἀξίαν ἀργυρίου ταλάντων χιλίων […] καὶ τυρία εὐαρέστους εἴκοσι καὶ …[…] καὶ ἀχύρου σιτίνου σαργάνας δύο ἡ μίσθωσις κυρία καὶ βεβαία καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα. Αὐρήλιος Μηνᾶς[…] μεμίσθωμαι ὡς πρόκειται. Αὐρήλιος Θωμᾶς[…]ἀξιωθεὶς ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ γράμματα μὴ εἰδότος. †[…] ἀπὸ Ἑρμουπόλεως μαρτυρῶ τῇ μισθώσει ἀκούσας παρὰ τοῦ θεμένου. †[…] ἀπὸ Ἑρμουπόλεως μαρτυρῶ τῇ μισθώσει ἀκούσας παρὰ τοῦ θεμένου. †[…] Ἀμμωνίου ἀπὸ Ἑρμοπόλεως μαρτυρῶ τῇ μισθώσει ἀκούσας παρὰ τοῦ θεμένου. † † διʼ ἐμοῦ Μηνᾶ συμβολαιογράφου ☧ ☧ ☧ Χοιὰκ[…] [v] […]… Ἄπα Μηνᾶς γεωργὸς ἀπὸ κώμης Ἐνσεῦ τοῦ Ἑρμουπολίτου.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] [… lines lost …] from the village of [Enseu in the Hermopolite nome. I acknowledge,] I, the aforementioned Menas, farmer, [willingly] and of my own accord, that I have leased [from you] for a five-year period reckoned [from the crops of the] coming, with God, twelfth indiction, the [arouras belonging] to you, one and a half and an eighth aroura […] more or less, unirrigated, lying [in the place] called G…xia in the fields of the village […] for sowing and storing of crops [of whatever I choose], for each aroura by measurement a rent [each] year, for the inundated land, of wheat […] artabas, [and for the uninundated land], which may it not happen, one third of the aforesaid [rent; which] rent, new, clean, sieved, [by the] Athenaean [measure], I will pay and measure out [to you in the month] […] and I will deliver the same rent [to your house] in Hermopolis with my own animals [and at my own expense] at the time of the payment of the public taxes, [and] […] one value (?) of silver, 1,000 (?) talents […] and 20 satisfactory cheeses and […] and 2 baskets of wheat chaff. [The lease is valid] and secure, and being asked I acknowledged. I, Aurelius Menas […], have leased as stated above. I, Aurelius Thomas […], [having been asked,] wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters. [†] […] from Hermopolis, I bear witness to the lease, having heard it from [the party. †] […] from Hermopolis, I bear witness to the lease, having heard it from [the party. †] […] […] son of Ammonios, from Hermopolis, I bear witness to the lease, having heard it [from the party. †] † Through me, Menas, notary. ☧ ☧ ☧ Choiak […] [verso] […] … Apa Menas, farmer, from the village of Enseu in the Hermopolite nome.

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