Application for a lease
Contains an application from Pyrcon, son of Geminus and Dius, sonof Sarapammon to rent 5 arouras of a date grove and one aroura of land neighboring
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10594
Offer to lease a palm grove and sandy land near Philadelphia TM 10594Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(early) IIIrd century A. D.
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An offer to lease addressed to Aurelius Apollonios, a former strategos of Alexandria, through his agent, by Tourbon son of Gemellos and Deios son of Sarapammon. They propose to rent 5 arouras of palm grove and 1 aroura of adjoining sandy land near Philadelphia for four years, at 100 drachmas for the first year and 200 drachmas a year thereafter. The text dates to about AD 204-205.
In English machine translation
To Aurelius Apollonios, former strategos of the most splendid city of the Alexandrians, through Amaseipo (?), his agent,
from Tourbon son of Gemellos and Deios son of Sarapammon, the two of us. We wish to lease
from you, from the land belonging to you near the village of Philadelpheia, 5 arouras of date-palm grove sown underneath, on dry land, and 1 aroura of the neighbouring sandy land,
together 6 arouras, or however many there may be,
for four years, in the place called Piesanpal,
the palm grove from the crops of the past 12th year due to fall into the present year, and the ground from the present 13th year, at a total rent
for the first year
of 100 silver drachmas, and for the remaining three years, each year, 200 drachmas,
all the work being
the responsibility of us the lessees, and all the public charges being
the responsibility of you, Aurelius Apollonios, and you will also provide us
each year […]
The text breaks off at the clause stating what the landlord will supply each year. The second lessee's name Tourbon appears as 'Pyrcon' in one catalogue description, which seems to be a misreading.
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.
p.corn.11
Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀπολλωνίῳ γενομένῳ στρατηγῷ τῆς λαμπροτάτης πόλεως τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων διὰ Ἀμασειπω ἐπιτρόπου παρὰ Τούρβωνος Γεμέλλου καὶ Δείου Σαραπάμμωνος τῶν δύο. βουλόμεθα μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν ὑπαρχουσῶν σοι περὶ κώμην Φιλαδέλφειαν φοινικῶνος ὑποσπειρομένου ἐν χέρσῳ ἀρούρας πέντε…