An offer to lease a granary with tower, courtyard and five storerooms in the hamlet of Pisais, addressed by Herieus son of Herieus of Soknopaiou Nesos to the two lessees of the hamlet, which belonged to the god Soknopaios. The rent is 45 artabas of wheat for one year, with repairs falling on the lessors and plastering and guarding on the lessee. It was written on 1 May AD 94 in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
To Stotoetis son of Apynchis and Stotoetis son of Stotoetis the elder, the two lessees of the hamlet of Pisais belonging to Soknopaios the great god,
from Herieus son of Herieus, of those from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos in the division of Herakleides, Persian of the Epigone.
I wish to lease from you, out of what you yourselves hold on lease in the hamlet, a granary in working order, watertight and fitted with doors, in which there are a tower and a courtyard and five storerooms, together with the bins (?) and pits and all the other appurtenances, for one year from the present day, at a total rent of 45 artabas of new, clean, unadulterated wheat by the fourth measure of the god Soknopaios, free of all risk and deduction; the repair or even rebuilding of the granary being the responsibility of us, Stotoetis and his partner, while the plastering and the guarding of the produce brought in shall be the responsibility of me, Herieus. Moreover I shall provide you with a storeroom in the granary free of rent and of every charge, and I shall pay the rent in the month of Kaisarios of the present 13th year, apart from the other leases which I hold in the hamlet, […] to hand over the granary clean of all filth together with the doors and keys fitted to it, if you see fit to lease on the aforesaid terms.
Herieus son of Herieus, aged about 50, with a scar on the little finger of the left hand.
Year 13 of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Germanicus, month of Germanikeios 6.
Germanikeios and Kaisarios are honorific month names used under Domitian for Pachon and Mesore. 'Persian of the Epigone' was a legal status designation, not an ethnic one.
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.