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End of an offer to lease farmland, in which the lessee Herakleia, acting with her husband Apollonios as guardian, promises to deliver the rent in Pauni at the threshing floor and to return the land free of weeds at the end of the term. It is dated 27 June 151 AD in the Arsinoite nome.
The beginning, with the lessor's name, the land and the rent, is lost. The phrase about the reed 'from cutting' (ex epikopes) is of uncertain sense.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease of Land). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] [… ? lines lost …] ἀποδώσω …[…] μηνὶ Παῦνι ἐφʼ ἅλῳ νέα καθαρὰ ἄδολα τῆς μετρήσεως γεινομένης διά τινος τῶν σῶν καὶ μετὰ τὸν χρόνον παραδώσω τὰς ἀρούρας καθαρὰς ἀπὸ θρύου ἀγρώστεως δείσης πάσης τὸν δὲ κάλαμον ἐξ ἐπικοπῆς ἐὰν φαίνηται μισθώσασθαι. Ἡράκλεια Ἀχιλλέως μετὰ κυρίου …
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