p.oxy.3.501 11. Okt. 186Oxyrhynchos

Herakleides also called Diogenes and Sarapion also called Diogenes, both sons of Diogenes, former gymnasiarchs of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, and however they are styled, through Hermes their agent, have leased to Harmiysis son of Heras, his mother being Tapheibis, from Tychinabitoou, for four years from the present 27th year, from the land belonging to them near Taampemou, out of the kleros of Philoneikos and Charas, the half share, held in common with Demetria daughter of Antimachos as to the other half, of 5 arouras and of bare plots, so as to sow and cut wood (?) each year, half with wheat and the other half with green crops, at a fixed rent for the same half share for the four-year period of 8 artabas of wheat in deposit and 40 drachmas each year. The lessee acknowledges that he owes the landowners as arrears on the same land from the past year 3 artabas of wheat, which the lessee will pay in deposit in the present year together with the deposit of the rents, all free from every risk. If in the following years any land becomes unflooded, allowance will be made to the lessee, the yearly public dues on the land being the responsibility of the landowners, who shall also have control of the crops until they receive what is owed each year. The lease being guaranteed, let the lessee measure [...] at his own expense [...] each year [...] year and the [...] of which let him pay the deposit, clean of all [impurities], each year at the first measuring [...] [...] and from all his property. The lease is valid. Year 27 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Sarmaticus Germanicus Maximus Britannicus, Phaophi 14. I, Hermes, have signed.