bgu.21.2890

† In the reign of our most divine master Flavius Justinian, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 30, after the consulship of Flavius Basilius the most glorious, year […], […] fifth indiction. To the holy Church of God of the Hermopolites, under the most holy bishop Menas, through you […], from the same city, from Aurelius Pkylis son of Josephios, his mother being Th[…], farmer from the hamlet of Taparat of the fields of the village of Enseu of the Hermopolite nome. I, the aforementioned Pkylis, farmer, acknowledge that I have of my own free will leased from the same holy Church for […] period reckoned from the crops of the sixth indiction, coming in with God's help, the farmland belonging to the same holy Church of […] arouras […] eight, and a vineyard plot of as many arouras as it is, with a complete cistern and a reservoir and a wooden (water-)machine […] and olive trees and mulberry trees and acacia trees and a wine-press vat and all its appurtenances, situated in the plain […] the arable land for sowing and storing of whatever crops I choose, at a rent for these arouras each year in wheat and barley half and half, for land both irrigated and unirrigated, whether I sow or do not sow, according to the capacity of the […] 36 1/2 artabas of wheat and of barley 36 1/2 artabas, total 36 1/2 artabas of wheat and 36 1/2 artabas of barley, which rent, new, clean and sieved, by the measure […] Athenaios, I shall pay and measure out to your steward in the month of Epeiph each year without delay, and I shall deliver the same rent to the granary of the same holy Church with my own animals and at my own expense; and I shall carry out the […] of the same vineyard plot with my own animals and their fodder and cowherds, and I shall irrigate it in winter twice a month and in summer every ten days, blamelessly and without neglect, on condition that […]