One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11233
Lease of an acacia plantation by Pechysis son of Herieus TM 11233Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites) (?)201 - 211
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End of a lease of an acacia plantation, in which Pechysis son of Herieus acknowledges the lease at a rent of 60 artabas of wheat payable to the state; Hierax son of Pankrates signed for him as he was illiterate. It dates to the joint reign of Septimius Severus and Caracalla (AD 201-211), probably from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…]
Year […] of the Emperors Caesars Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Augusti ⟦and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus⟧, Thoth 17.
I, Pechysis son of Herieus, have leased (the acacia plantation) at the (rent) of sixty artabas of wheat to the public account, total 60, as aforesaid.
I, Hierax son of Pankrates, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters.
[verso]
Lease of an acacia plantation
Geta's name was erased after his murder in 211 (damnatio memoriae). The words 'acacia plantation' and 'rent' in the body are supplied from context, as the text there is elliptical.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment d’un contrat de location pour une plantation d’acacias). 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.39
[r] [… ? lines lost …] ἔτους … Αὐτοκρατόρων Καισάρων Λουκίου Σεπτιμίου Σεουήρου Εὐσεβοῦς Περτίνακος καὶ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Εὐσεβοῦς Σεβαστῶν , Θὼθ ιζ. Πεχῦσις Ἑριέως μεμίσθωμαι τῶι τοῦ πυροῦ εἰς τὸ δημόσιον ἀρτάβας ἑξήκοντα γίνονται ξ, ὡς πρόκειται. Ἱέραξ Παγκράτου ἔγραψα …