Application to lease grain land at Bakchias TM 11987Bacchias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 17, 121 A.D.

To Haryotes son of Alexas, from Horos son of Horos, grandson of Horos, of those from the village of Bakchias, Persian of the Epigone. I wish to lease from you for four years, four sowings, from the present fifth year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, the 4 1/2 arouras of cleruchic land belonging to you around the aforementioned village of Bakchias, or however many there may be, in one parcel, at a total annual rent, including the 4 1/2 artabas of wheat seed which I shall receive from you, of 20 artabas of wheat by the six-choinix receiving measure of Alexas your brother, free from deductions and from risk. And I shall carry out all the farming work each year that is required, at my own expense, each at the proper time, causing no damage, and I shall pay the annual rent in the month of Pauni in the village, new, clean, unadulterated, free of barley; and after the term I shall hand over the arouras clean of rushes, reeds, dog's-tooth grass and all weeds, and half the land rested with green fodder and the remaining half from stubble, the transport costs for the extra cultivation (?) being my responsibility, Horos, if it seems good to you to lease on the above terms. Haryotes, about 59 years old, scar on the ankle of the left foot. Year 5 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, Tybi 22.