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Offer to lease a vineyard near Karanis for a share of the produce TM 11632Karanis? (Arsinoites)

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An offer to lease a vineyard of about 4 1/2 arouras near Karanis for three years, from the eighth year of Domitian, made by Sambas and Neon, Persians of the Epigone, to the brothers Chairemon, Horion and Sokrates. The lessees are to keep one third of the produce and give two thirds to the owners, and to carry out the vine-work, watering, pruning, ditching and hoeing.

In English machine translation

To Chairemon and Horion and Sokrates, sons of Chairemon, from Sambas and Neon, both sons of […]on, the two Persians of the Epigone, mutually guaranteeing each other for payment. We wish to lease from you for three years, three harvests, from the coming eighth year of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, the vineyard belonging to you near Karanis, at a rent in kind, of 4 1/2 arouras or however many there may be, in one parcel, for a third share to us, Sambas and his partner, free of all public charges and of every kind, and with you, Chairemon and his brothers, receiving a two-thirds share of all the vine produce gathered each year and […] and of figs and of all fruit trees, we, Sambas and his partner, performing all the due vine and soil work and the due waterings and the moderate and proper pruning of the vine, not long-cutting, and we will bank up the existing reed-bed each year, and we will dig [twenty (?)] ditches each year in the vineyard for the reed-work […] and it shall not be permitted to us […] in the vineyard ground […] except only garden crops […] vegetables […]; the vintage and the transport and [all] expense being our responsibility, Sambas and his partner, but the wage for the treading to be paid in equal shares; and we will hoe the vineyard with two hoeings, and after the term we will hand over the vineyard and reed-bed […] […]

"Persians of the Epigone" was a legal status designation in Roman Egypt, used mainly in contracts. The end of the document is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.lond.2.163

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Karanis? (Arsinoites)

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