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Offer to lease arable land at Kerkesoucha TM 10754Kerkesucha Orus (Arsinoites, Ägypten)10. Nov. 190

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End of an offer to lease farmland at Kerkesoucha in the Arsinoite nome, in which the prospective tenant Pisaeis undertakes to farm the land and pay rent in kind in Pauni, half to Varelius and his associates and half to Herakleia and hers. It is dated 10 November 190 AD.

In English machine translation

[…] of the arouras [all the farming work that is due] at my own expense at the proper seasons, doing no damage, and I will pay the rents to Varelius and his associates for the half share and to Herakleia and her associates for the remaining half share in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor of Kerkesoucha, by the four-choinix measure of the village granary, the measuring being done by one of your agents, the yearly transport charges for hastening (?) and donkey-driving being my responsibility, and the conveyance of the rents being yours. And after the term I will hand back the arouras after the wheat harvest, if you see fit to lease. Pisaeis, about 32 years old, with a scar on the little finger of the left hand. Year 31 of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord, Hathyr 14.

The beginning with the parties' names, the size of the plot and the rent amount is lost. The phrase 'if you see fit to lease' marks this as an offer awaiting the landowners' acceptance.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Offer of 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 10. Nov. 190 · Kerkesucha Orus (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

[… ? lines lost …] ἀρουρῶν γεωργικὰ ἔργα πάντα ὅσα καθήκει ἐκ τοῦ ἰδίου τοῖς καιροῖς βλάβος μηδὲν ποιῶν καὶ τὰ ἐκφόρια ἀποδώσω τοῖς περὶ τὸν Οὐαρέλιον κατὰ τὸ ἥμισυ μέρος καὶ τοῖς περὶ τὴν Ἡράκλειαν κατὰ τὸ λοιπὸν ἥμισυ μέρος μηνὶ Παῦνι ἐφʼ ἅλῳ τῆς Κερκεσούχων μέτρῳ τετραχοινίκῳ …

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Offer of Lease

Papyri.info — HGV (Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis) — metadata · Papyrus 1943(a-b) · 10. Nov. 190 · Kerkesucha Orus (Arsinoites, Ägypten)