Sharecropping Contract

[In] the name of the holy and life-creating and consubstantial [trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It was written on (month, day)] of [the] present third indiction in Hermopolis of the Thebaid. To N.N., spectabilis chartularius, son of N.N. … [from] Taurinus, your hamleteer from your [property called N.N. I acknowledge freely and] of my own will that I have leased from you for [a period of n years, reckoned from the crops of the (God willing) coming fourth] indiction inclusive and thereafter, the new plantations(?) belonging [to you] … of however many arouras they are, including [various] plants [… and] a wooden waterwheel fitted with all fixtures [and … situated in] your property called N.N. … of the Hermopolite nome, for manual [vine-dressing labour and …] and the fixing of vine-poles and the arrangement of reeds [and] to make fences(?) on all four sides … for wages for each aroura … at the crops of the (God willing) coming fourth [indiction …] and thereafter, on the condition that I (read: you) take the third share [of the yield of wine, while I along with the irrigator(?) receive the other two-thirds(?)] share in exchange for our toil; and I shall provide [each year …] and ten(?) large angeia of old wine … and one hundred pairs of loaves and n sextarii of oil …