p.mil.vogl.2.106 Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

To A[…] son of (?) Gemeinos, from Kastor son of Sotas, grandson of Sotas, registered in the quarter of the Isis Dromos, Persian of the Epigone. I wish to lease from you for six years from the coming nineteenth year of Hadrian Caesar the lord the 12 1/2 arouras of cleruchic land belonging to you near the village of Kerkeusiris, or however many they may be, in two plots called (the plots) of Keskis, of which the first plot is 11 arouras and the second the remaining 1 1/2 arouras; the first, third and fifth years of the lease for sowing wheat, at a rent for the three-year period, each year, including the 12 1/2 artabas of wheat seed which you will supply to me each year, of a total each year of 178 artabas of wheat, and for the supervisor's fee and the donkey-driver's fee 1 artaba, all by the six-choinix measure of the god of Kerkeusiris; the second and fourth years for sowing hay as fodder for sheep and for folding, without rent; the sixth year, which is the last year of the lease, 8 1/2 arouras for sowing hay as fodder for sheep and for folding, and the remaining 4 arouras for sowing vegetable seed, likewise without rent and dues, all free of deductions and risk; I carrying out each year at my own expense all the agricultural work on the arouras that is appropriate at the proper seasons, doing no damage. And I will pay the rents each year in the month of Pauni on the threshing floor, new, clean, unadulterated, the measuring being done by one of your agents, the yearly transport charges for expediting being borne by me the lessee, and the conveyance of the rents by you the landowner. And after the term I will hand over the arouras clean of all binding (?) weed except rush and reed. You will guarantee the lease to me, free of all public charges, not to be re-leased to others and not to be cultivated by yourself […] and […] if it seems good to lease.