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Offer to sublease a kleros near Tebtynis with indemnity clause TM 11559Tebtynis (Arsinoites)31. Aug. 137

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An offer to sublease farmland near Tebtynis, addressed to Sasopis son of Kronion by Anchorynphis and a partner from Narmouthis, dated 31 August 137. The sublessees undertake to pay rents, dues and customary gifts and to protect Sasopis from any claims concerning the cultivation, under a penalty of 60 drachmas.

In English machine translation

To Sasopis son of Kronion, grandson of Kronion, from Anchorynphis and Ap[…], from the village of Narmouthis, Persians of the Epigone. We wish to lease for […] years from the present twenty-second year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, [the land] which […] and Harphaesis son of Paopis leased according to […] through Ailouras son of S[…] […] near Tebtynis, a kleros of […] arouras in two parcels, and […] following […] rents and dues and gifts and the whole cultivation, and we will keep Sasopis untroubled and free from exaction and undisturbed in every way regarding the rents and dues and gifts and the whole cultivation […]; we have agreed […]. If anyone transgresses any of these terms, let him pay at once a penalty of 60 drachmas. [Writer of the subscription:] Anchorynphis son of Akes(?) Brach[…] Year 22 of Hadrian Caesar the lord, Thoth 3.

"Persians of the Epigone" was a legal status label used in contracts, not an ethnic description. The "gifts" (thalloi) were customary extra payments in kind made by tenants to landlords.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Subaffitto con obbligo di indennizzo). 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 · 31. Aug. 137 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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