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Lease with advance rent of 4 arouras near Tebtynis to Ammonilla TM 11541Tebtynis (Arsinoites)145 - 146

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Copy of a lease with advance payment of rent from Tebtynis, in which Taorsenouphis leases 4 arouras of private land near Tebtynis to Ammonilla for a further nine years, beginning after the five remaining years of an earlier lease made in year 8. Ammonilla bears the cultivation costs, while Taorsenouphis pays the public taxes and has already received the rent.

In English machine translation

Copy of an agreement [… 5 lines lost …] […] […] aged about 30, with a scar […], that she has leased to Ammonilla herself for another nine years, after the term of the other lease with advance payment of rent which she holds from Taorsenouphis, made in the past eighth year on Pharmouthi [12], [after] the five remaining years under it, from the coming twelfth year, the land belonging to her near Tebtynis, formerly of Harpokratiaine, private land, 3 1/4 arouras, and of the supplementary assignment 1/2 1/4 aroura, making together 4 arouras, called Pas…, for sowing with whatever crops Ammonilla chooses each year, and with wheat, the labours, irrigation and all charges being the responsibility of Ammonilla herself, but all the public dues, both in grain and in money, of every kind, being the responsibility of Taorsenouphis, who has also received the price of the rents in full, from hand to hand […] [with every guarantee …]

A prodomatike misthosis is a lease in which the lessor receives the rent in advance, in effect a disguised loan secured on land. The land is called 'epibole', land assigned in addition to a holding, here translated as supplementary assignment.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Prodomatikai misthoseis). 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 · 145 - 146 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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