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Offer to lease the date harvest of palms in a vineyard near Philadelphia TM 11396Philadelphia (Arsinoites)89

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An offer to lease the year's date harvest from palms scattered through a vineyard near Philadelphia in the Fayum, addressed to the discharged cavalryman Lucius Valerius Gallus by the veteran Neoptolemos and Herges, who stand surety for each other. They offer 60 silver drachmas plus 1 artaba of pressed dates, payable in two instalments, in AD 89.

In English machine translation

To Lucius Valerius Gallus, discharged cavalryman, from Neoptolemos son of Crispus, of the discharged cavalrymen, and Herges son of Herges, Persian of the epigone, the two being mutual sureties for payment. We wish to lease from you the dates growing in the present eighth year of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus on the palms planted here and there in the vineyard belonging to Valentia Dionysias near Philadelphia. We undertake to pay a total rent of 60 […] silver drachmas and, as an extra, 1 artaba of pressed dates by the dromos measure, free of all risk and exempt from all deduction. We will pay the rent in two instalments, in the month of Phaophi and in the month of Neos Sebastos, at the appropriate season, if it seems good to you to lease to us on the foregoing terms, Valerius having the right […] […] […]

"Persian of the epigone" was a legal-status designation of the period, not an ethnic one. Neos Sebastos was an honorific month name corresponding to Hathyr.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtangebot auf Dattelpalmernte). 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 · 89 · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

Λουκίωι Οὐαλερίωι Γάλλωι ἀπολυσίμωι ἱππεῖ παρὰ Νεοπτολέμου τοῦ Κρίσπου τῶν ἀπολελυμένων ἱππέων καὶ Ἑργέος τοῦ Ἑργέος Πέρσου τῆς ἐπιγονῆς τῶν δύο ἀλλήλων ἐγγύων εἰς ἔκτισιν. βουλόμεθα μισθώσασθαι παρά σου τοὺς ἐπικειμένους τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ὀγδόου ἔτους Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Δομιτιανο…