Offer to lease catoecic land at Theogonis TM 10756Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)14. Aug. 195

To Philantinoos also called Herodes, Antinoite, and to Tanouphis and Didyme, the two (women) acting through the aforementioned Philantinoos also called Herodes, from Herakles son of Maximos, from the metropolis. I wish to lease from you the 3 arouras of catoecic allotment land, or however many they may be, belonging to you, each according to the right he holds, near the village of Theogonis, for 4 years from the coming fourth year, at a total rent each year, without seed, of 13 1/2 artabas of wheat, free from deductions and risk; and I will carry out all the yearly farming work that is proper at my own expense at the due seasons, causing no damage, sowing the arouras with whatever crops I choose except safflower; and I will pay the rent in the month of Pauni on the threshing floor of the aforementioned village by the six-choinix measure of the village granary, clean, unadulterated, free of earth and barley, sieved, the measuring being done by one of your people, the public transport charges being my responsibility, Herakleios, while all other public charges are yours. I will also give for donkey-driving 1/6 artaba of wheat. And after the term I will hand back the arouras, one half after a harvest of wheat, the remaining half after a fallow of fodder, and clean of rushes, reeds, dog's-tooth grass and all weeds, if you see fit to lease. Herakles, aged 52, scar on the little finger of the left hand. Year 3 of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Arabicus Adiabenicus, month of Mesore 21.