bgu.4.1092 1. Sept. 372Hermopolis

In the consulship of Domitius Modestus, prefect of the sacred praetorium, and Arintheus, the most illustrious count and master of soldiers, Thoth 4. To Aurelius Hermeinos son of Hermeias, councillor of Hermopolis the great and most illustrious, from Aurelius Silvanus son of Hermodoros, councillor of the same city. I acknowledge that I have voluntarily and of my own free will leased from you, for the single sowing, to take place with good fortune, of the sixteenth, that is the first, indiction, for the crops of the second, the farmland belonging to you, of however many arouras it is, in which there is a cistern, with all its equipment, located in the fields of the village of Thrage in the Hermopolite nome, for sowing and planting with whatever crops I choose, at a fixed rent agreed between us for each aroura, as it will be found by survey at the time with the just measuring cord in the same sowing: for the 20 arouras planted with wheat on fallow land, 6 artabas of wheat each, and for the rest planted with pulses, 4 artabas of barley each. This rent, as it is totalled and found, I will pay and measure out to you at the time of harvest, wheat and barley new, clean, without dust, unadulterated and sieved, in the month of Epeiph of the same second indiction, by the Athenian measure, on the threshing floors of the same village, all public dues being the responsibility of you, Hermeinos. Otherwise you may afterwards lease it to another. The lease is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent, Thoth 4. I, Aurelius Silvanus son of Hermodoros, have leased as stated above, and I will also provide you with 2 nets (?) of barley chaff.