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Offer to lease a palm grove near Theadelphia TM 11479Theadelphia (Arsinoites)105 - 106 (?)

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An offer to lease addressed to Thaisarion, acting with her husband Eudaimon as guardian, by two men, Orsenouphis and Onnophris, described as Persians of the Epigone. They propose to lease one aroura of palm grove near Theadelphia for two years at 52 drachmas a year plus dates, and the current year's date crop for 24 drachmas plus half an artaba of fresh dates. The papyrus breaks off before the end.

In English machine translation

To Thaisarion daughter of Sokrates, with her guardian, her husband Eudaimon, son by adoption of […]on, from Orsenouphis son of O[…] and Onnophris son of Se[…], the two Persians of the Epigone. We wish to lease from you the one aroura of palm grove, or however many there may be, belonging to you near Theadelpheia on the west, for two years, two harvests, starting from the fruits falling due annually from the coming tenth year, and the ground for the same two years for sowing whatever we choose, at a total rent per year of 52 silver drachmas and, as a special payment, 1 artaba of dried dates, from whichever palm you choose, and likewise as rent for the dates now on the trees of the current ninth year, falling due into the coming tenth year, 24 silver drachmas and, as a special payment, 1/2 artaba of fresh dates; and the aforesaid rents […] of the dates on the trees […] […] […]

"Persians of the Epigone" was a legal status designation used in contracts, not a real ethnic origin by this period. The "special payments" (exaireta) were extra rents in kind added to the cash rent.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtangebot (Hypomnema)). 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 · 105 - 106 (?) · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

Θαισαρίῳ Σωκράτους μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ ἀνδρὸς Εὐδαίμονος υἱοῦ θέσει […]ωνος παρὰ Ὀρσενούφεως Ο…… … καὶ Ὀννώφρεως τοῦ Σε[…] τῶν δύο Περσῶν τῆς ἐπιγονῆς. βουλόμεθα μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ τὴν ὑπάρχουσάν σοι περὶ Θεαδέλφειαν ἐν τῷ λιβὶ φοινικῶνος ἄρουραν μίαν ἢ ὅσων ἐὰν ᾖ εἰς ἔτη δύο καρπο…