Copy of a lease with advance payment of hay land near Tebtynis TM 11530Tebtynis (Arsinoites)19. Juli 116

Copy of an agreement. Year nineteen of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Optimus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus Parthicus, Epeiph 25, at Tebtynis in the division of Polemon of the Arsinoite nome. Kronion son of Cheos, aged about 56, with a scar on the little finger of the left hand, acknowledges to Helene daughter of Herodes, aged about 65, without distinguishing marks, with as her guardian her own son Herakleides son of Didymos, aged about 36, with a scar in the middle of the forehead, that he has leased to Helene herself for the coming twentieth year the 6 1/4 arouras which Kronion happens to farm near Tebtynis in the so-called holding of Apollonios, called (the land) of Kategoros, and the 5 1/2 arouras of the same Kronion's daughter Taorsenouphis by the so-called canal of Chelon, or however many they may be, for sowing, cutting and drying of hay, near Tebtynis, out of the 9 arouras in the northern part of the holding of Horotynes(?), the supply of seed and the cutting of the hay being the responsibility of Helene, and the farming work and all taxes being the responsibility of Kronion, who also has received from Helene in advance payment the price of the hay in full, and he will guarantee (the lease) against all claims, Helene suffering no loss with respect to the 20 artabas of wheat by the four-choinix measure of Tebtynis which Kronion owes her without written contract. Writer: […] son of Dios(?), aged about 50, with a scar in the middle of the forehead. I, Kronion son of Cheos, acknowledge that I have leased to Helene for the coming twentieth year the […] and […]