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bgu.3.840 VI - VIIArsinoites
Sharecropping lease of arouras with landowner supplying seed. End of a land lease from the Arsinoite nome in the 6th or 7th century AD, in which a farmer takes arouras on a sharecropping basis: he does the cultivation and hay-binding, while the landowner provides animals and seed, which are deducted from the common harvest along with harvest wages and a customary due. Aurelius Elias signs for the illiterate farmer, and the notary Theognostos completes the document in Latin script. machine translation
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- (untitled record) HGV-meta ArsinoitesVI - VII
Inscriptions (1)
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Transcription
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[…]τὰ πρὸς τὴν καλλιεργίαν τῶν αὐτῶν ἀρουρῶν ἔργα πάντα ἀκαταγνώστως ποιεῖσθαι δʼ ἐμὲ καὶ τὴν δέσιν τοῦ παντὸς χόρτου, τῶν τε παντοίων
τετραπόδων καὶ προχρείας σπερμάτων καὶ τίλσεως τοῦ χόρτου ὁρώντων
πρὸς σὲ τὸν γεοῦχον, καὶ ὑπεξαιρεῖσθαί σε ἐνιαυσίως ἐκ τῆς κοινώτητος
τὰδιδόμενα παρὰ σοῦ σπέρματα καὶ ὑπὲρ μισθοῦ δραγματηγίας κατα
[…]… ὑπεξαιρεῖσθαί σε ἐκ τῆς
κοινώτητος καὶ τὸν μισθὸν τοῦ ἁλωεισμοῦ καὶ ὑπὲρ γεουχικῆς συνηθείας
[…]κατὰ ἀρτάβην μίαν ἀρτάβης ἥμισυ . ἡ μίσθωσις κυρία καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα.
[…]…… γεωργὸς ὁ προκείμενος μεμίσθωμαι τὰς προγεγραμμένας ἀρούρας
καὶ ποιήσω καὶ δώσω καὶ πληρώσω πάντα ὡς πρόκειται Αὐρήλιος Ἠλίας Παύλου
ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ παρόντος ἀγραμμάτου ὄντος .
† di emu Theognostu esemioth †Translations (1)
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[…] to carry out all the works for the cultivation of the same arouras blamelessly, and that I shall also do the binding of all the hay, while the [animals] of every kind and the advance of seed and the plucking of the hay are the concern of you, the landowner; and that you shall deduct yearly from the common stock the seed [given] by you, and for the wage of sheaf-carrying […] that you shall deduct from the [common stock] also the wage for the threshing, and for the landowner's customary due […] for each artaba half an artaba. The lease is valid, and having been asked the formal question I have agreed.
[…] the aforesaid farmer, I have leased the aforewritten arouras and I will do and give and fulfil everything as aforesaid. I, Aurelius Elias son of Paulos, [wrote on his behalf, he being] present, since he is illiterate.
† Executed through me, Theognostos †
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