One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11228
Offer to lease farmland TM 11228Arsinoites (?)18. Sept. 156
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Fragmentary end of an offer to lease land, with terms on labour with oxen, payment of rent each year in Pauni, and return of the land clear of stubble at the end of the lease. The lessor's subscription accepts the lease. Dated 18 September 156 AD, probably from the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[… lines lost …]
[…] […] […]
[…] thirty, I providing
[you] with the service, and you will give
[me] for the ploughing (?) of bull-work
[labour] without wages; and the rents I will deliver each year in the month of Pauni
[securely], and after the term I will hand back
[the] land clear of stubble, if you see fit
[to lease]. Apoleia Dionysia (?):
I have leased as aforesaid.
Year 20 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Thoth 21.
"Hyposchismos" is a rare agricultural term, probably a type of ploughing or breaking of the soil with oxen. The subscriber's name is printed as "Apoleia Dionysia" and its reading is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Proposition de bail). 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.gen.1.2ed.34
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