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Offer to lease public land at Theadelphia TM 10945Arsinoites147 - 148

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An offer by Peneus son of Anchorimphis, a 'Persian of the epigone', to the pittakiarch Horion son of Kastor to lease about 6 2/3 arouras of public land near Theadelphia formerly farmed by Petermouthis, paying the usual state rents and charges and receiving seed from the state. It dates to the 11th year of Antoninus Pius (AD 147-148) in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

To Horion son of Kastor, pittakiarch, from Peneus son of Anchorimphis, Persian of the epigone. I wish to cultivate in your above-mentioned pittakion, from the present 11th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, the plots of public land near the village of Theadelphia previously cultivated by Petermouthis son of Onnophris: in the embadon (?) of the eight-aroura holding, 3 1/2 arouras, and in the embadon of the seventy-aroura holding, 3 1/8 1/64 arouras, in return for the yearly rents owed on them to the state treasury, together with the additional charges, the dues in kind and the single bundle of hay, I receiving each year for them the seed from the state. I shall contribute to the common expenses incurred for the same pittakion, paying all the ... [...] public [...]

A pittakion was an administrative subdivision of public land, overseen by a pittakiarch. 'Persian of the epigone' was by this time a legal status label used in contracts, not an ethnic designation.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Affitto di terreno pubblico). 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 · 147 - 148 · Arsinoites

Ὡρίωνι Κάστορος πιττακιάρχῃ παρὰ Πένεως τοῦ Ἀγχορίμφεως Πέρσου τῆς ἐπιγονῆς. βούλομαι γεωργήσειν ἐν τῷ προκιμένῳ πιττακίῳ σοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ια ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου τὰς προγεωργουμένας ὑπὸ Πετερμούθεως Ὀννώφρεως περὶ κώμην Θεαδελφείαν δημοσίας γῆς πρὸς μὲν ἐμβλή…