An offer by Aphrodisios son of Akousilaos to lease for two years 11 arouras near Euhemeria belonging to the minor Heron, represented by his guardian and mother, for an annual rent of 40 artabas of wheat. It sets out the farming duties, crop rotation, division of charges and conditions of return. Written in the Arsinoite nome in November 159.
In English machine translation
To Heron son of Sarapion, a minor, acting with his guardian Ischyrion son of Herodes, with the concurrence of the minor's mother Herois,
from Aphrodisios son of Akousilaos, from the metropolis.
I wish to lease the 11 arouras of land, or however many there may be, belonging to Heron near the village of Euhemeria, in one parcel, for two years from the present 23rd year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, at a total annual rent for the whole arouras, without seed, of 40 artabas of wheat by the four-choinix dromos measure, free from deductions and risks; and I will carry out the yearly works, embankments, irrigations, under-ploughings, double hoeings, clearing of canals, sowings, weedings and all else that is fitting, at my own expense at the proper seasons, doing no damage, sowing the arouras in the first year with whatever crops I choose except safflower, and in the second year half with wheat and the remaining half with fallow crops, the annual public transport charges being my responsibility, Aphrodisios, and all the other public charges Heron's. And I will deliver the annual rent in the month Pauni, new, clean, unadulterated, free of barley, at the village of Theadelphia, and after the term I will hand back the arouras after the harvest of the crops sown as stated above, clean of rushes, reed, couch-grass and all dirt, if you agree to lease.
Aphrodisios, about 40 years old, with a scar on the middle of the forehead.
Year 23 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Hathyr 12.
The land is called 'vine land' (ampelitis), though it is to be sown with grain and other crops. 'Fallow crops' renders a Greek term for restorative crops such as legumes grown to rest the soil.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for a Lease). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.