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Fragment of a lease of arable land for rent in wheat. Fragment of a land lease in which the tenant promises to pay the landowner a rent in wheat each year: 5 artabas per aroura for one half of the land and 3 artabas per aroura for the other half, measured by the landowner's own measure. It comes from Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) in the Fayum, first half of the 3rd century AD. machine translation
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τῆς μὲν μιᾶς ἀνὰ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας πέντε
[…]τὴν δὲ ἄλλην ἡμίσειαν ἑκάστης
ἀρούρης ἀνὰ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας τρεῖς καὶ μέτρα
τοσαῦτα ἅπερ ἐπάναγκες ἀποδώσω σοι
[…]καθʼ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν τῷ δέοντι
καιρῷ τῷ μέτρῳ σου τοῦ γεούχου· περὶ δὲ τῆς
[…]να τῶν ἀρουρῶν ἐπὶ τῶν ε[…]
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