Offer to lease grain land near Karanis for three years TM 10310Kom Aushim (Karanis)Oct. 20th 296 A.D.

To Aurelius Nemesinos, former exegetes, councillor of the city of the Arsinoites, from Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, his mother being Heroeis, from the village of Karanis. I wish to lease from you the 4 arouras of grain land, or however many they may be, belonging to you near the same village in the boundary district of Kerkesoucha, for a period of 3 years from the sowing of the present year, at a total annual rent of 9 1/2 artabas of wheat, and I will carry out all the yearly work on the arouras that is required, at my own expense, at the proper times, doing no damage at all, and I will pay the yearly rent in the month of Pauni on the threshing floor by the four-choinix measure, all the public dues being the responsibility of you the owner, and after the term I will hand back the arouras clear of fallow and stubble, as is fair. The lease is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius Nemesinos, have leased as stated above. Year 2 of our lord Domitianus Augustus, Phaophi 23.