Offer to lease three arouras in the Thicket near Tebtynis TM 10570Tebtynis (Arsinoites, Ägypten)26. Juli 165

[recto] To Onesimos also called Herakleides, son of Ptolemos, former high priest, from Kronion son of Didas son of Dioskoros, of the Syrian quarter, and Petesouchos son of Petesouchos son of Petosiris, the two. We wish to lease from you, on mutual security, for six years from the coming sixth year of Antoninus and Verus the lords Augusti, near the village of Tebtynis in the place called the Thicket, next to the flooded land, 3 arouras of cleruchic land: in the first, third and fifth years for sowing with barley, at a rent, including the 2 artabas of barley we shall receive as seed, of 30 artabas of barley in all each year, by the measure of Didyme; and in the second, fourth and sixth years for sowing with whatever we choose except wheat, barley and safflower, at a rent of 2 artabas of vegetable seed in all each year, by the oil measure […], and as a gift each year one cock worth 4 drachmas, all free of deductions and risks. And we shall carry out each year all the work on the arouras that is required, at our own expense, at the proper seasons, doing no damage, and we shall deliver the rents each year in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor, new, clean, unadulterated, the measuring being done by one of your people, the yearly transport charges for the extra payment being our responsibility, and the conveyance of the rents being yours. And after the term we shall hand over the arouras clean of rushes, reed, dog's-tooth grass and all weeds, except […] of the dyke next to the flooded land. If it seems good to you to lease. I, Onesimos also called Herakleides, the aforementioned, have received a copy of this. Year 5 of Antoninus and Verus the lords Augusti, Mesore 2. [verso] Offer of lease to Onesimos, 3 arouras in the Thicket for 6 years.