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Lease of Catoecic Land via HGV-meta

Lease of catoecic land near Sepho. A contract by which Sarapion, a Macedonian cavalry settler, leases 15 arouras of his allotment near Sepho to Apollonios for one year, specifying wheat, barley and lentil crops, a rent of 4 artabas per aroura, and advances of seed and money. It was drawn up at Oxyrhynchus in October 73 BC. machine translation

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[r] βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου καὶ Κλεοπάτρας τῆς καὶ Τρυφαίνης θεῶν Φιλοπατόρων Φιλαδέλφων ἔτους θ, τὰ δʼ ἄλλα τῶν κοινῶν ὡς ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείαι γράφεται, μηνὸς Ἀπελλαίου καὶ Φαῶφι ιε ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει τῆς Θηβαΐδος. ἐμίσθωσεν Σαραπίων Ἀπολλωνίου Μακεδὼν τῶν κατοίκων ἱππέων Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι καὶ Παν[…] Ἰσχυρίωνος τοῦ καὶ Νεχθενείβιος Πέρσηι τῆς ἐπιγονῆς οἱ δύο ἀγυιᾶς Κλεοπάτρας Ἀφροδίτης ἀπὸ τοῦ κλήρου αὐτοῦ ἃς ἔχει περὶ Σεφὼ ἀρούρας δεκαπέντε εἰς τὸ ἔνατον ἔτος, ὥστε τὰς μὲν ἐν τῶι Διοκλέους κλήρωι ἀρούρας τρεῖς πυροσπορῆσαι, τῶν δʼ ἐν τῷ Φίλωνος ἀρουρῶν δεκάδυο τὸ μὲν ἥμισυ κριθῇ τὸ δʼ ἄλλο ἥμισυ φακῶι, ἐκφορίου καθʼ ἑκάστην ἄρουραν ἐκ γεωμετρίας τοῦ δοθέντος εἰς σπορὰν σιτικοῖς ἀρταβῶν τεσσάρων . καὶ ὁμολογεῖ Ἀπολλώνιος ἔχειν παρὰ Σαραπίωνος εἰς σπέρματα καὶ τὴν ἄλλην τῆς κατασπορᾶς δαπάνην ἀδιαφόρους κριθῆς μὲν ἀρτάβας ἑπτὰ ἥμισυ , φακοῦ δὲ ἀρτάβας ἑπτὰ ἥμισυ , καὶ εἰς θρυοκοπίαν τῆς γῆς ἀναποδότους χαλκοῦ δραχμὰς χιλίας πεντακοσίας ἀκινδύνους καὶ ἀνυπολόγους ἀπὸ παντὸς κινδύνου. ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἐκφορίων πλὴν τῶν τελῶν, ἐάν τι πραχθῇ Ἀπολλώνιος εἰς τὸ βασιλικὸν ἢ εἰς ἕτερόν τι καθʼ ὁντινοῦν τρόπον ὑπὲρ Σαραπίωνος ἢ τῆς γῆς, ὑπολογείτω ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκφορίων, τῶν δὲ καρπῶν κυριευέτω Σαραπίων ἕως ἂν τὰ ἐκφόρια κομίσηται καὶ [… ? lines lost …] [v] ἔτους θ μίσθωσις […]

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[recto] In the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra also called Tryphaina, gods Philopatores Philadelphoi, year 9, and the other matters of common form as written in Alexandria, month Apellaios and Phaophi 15, at Oxyrhynchus city of the Thebaid. Sarapion son of Apollonios, Macedonian, of the katoikoi cavalrymen, has leased to Apollonios also called Pan[…], son of Ischyrion also called Nechthenibis, Persian of the Epigone, both of the street of Cleopatra Aphrodite, from his allotment (kleros) which he holds near Sepho, fifteen arouras for the ninth year, on condition that he sow three arouras in the allotment of Diokles with wheat, and of the twelve arouras in the allotment of Philon, half with barley and the other half with lentils, at a rent for each aroura, by survey, of four artabas of the grain given for sowing. And Apollonios acknowledges that he has received from Sarapion for seed and the other expenses of sowing, in good condition, 7 1/2 artabas of barley and 7 1/2 artabas of lentils, and for the cutting of rushes on the land, not to be repaid, 1,500 drachmas of copper, free of risk and not subject to deduction for any risk. As regards the rents, apart from the taxes, if Apollonios is made to pay anything to the royal treasury or for anything else in any way on behalf of Sarapion or of the land, let him deduct it from the rents; and let Sarapion be master of the crops until he has received the rents, and […] […] [verso] Year 9, lease […]

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