End of a lease of farmland in which a woman, Aurelia Serenilla, acting through her son Zoilos, leases arouras from a group of owners for a wheat rent, promising to do all the agricultural work and to return the land clear of stubble. It is dated 4 October 300 in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
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for a period of […] years from the 17th and 16th and 9th year, at a rent each year per aroura of […] and a half artabas of wheat, not subject to deduction and free of risk, and I shall necessarily carry out all the yearly works, the embanking, irrigating, ditching, double-hoeing (?) and raising of dykes and all the other things that are fitting, at my own expense at the proper times, doing no damage at all, and I shall pay the rent each year in the month of Pauni in the same village by the four-choinix measure, all public charges being the responsibility of you the owners, and after the period I shall hand back the arouras clear of stubble just as I received them, if it seems good to lease them. And having been asked the formal question, I agreed.
I, Aurelia Serenilla, through me her son Zoilos, have leased as aforesaid. We, Aurelii Gemellos and Pasigenes, through me Isidoros, and Ptollas and Oualas, have leased as aforesaid. I, Isidoros, wrote also on behalf of Ptollas and Oualas, who are illiterate.
Year 17 and 16 and 9 of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti and Constantius and Maximian, most illustrious Caesars, Phaophi 7.
The opening with the parties' names is lost; the subscriptions suggest Serenilla is the lessee and Gemellos, Pasigenes, Ptollas and Oualas the owners, though the verb 'have leased' is used for both sides. The regnal date counts the years of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars together.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease of Land). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.