Application to lease grain land at Bakchias from a cavalry veteran TM 11988Bacchias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptAugust 24-28, 122 A.D.

To Marcus Anthestius Gemellus, of the discharged cavalrymen, from Horos son of Horos, from the village of Bakchias, Persian of the epigone. I wish to lease from you for four years from the present sixth year of Hadrian Caesar the lord the 5 arouras belonging to you near the same village, or however many they may be, in one parcel, at a total rent each year, including the 5 artabas of barley which I shall receive as seed, of 25 artabas of barley […] by the six-choinix measure of the village interpreter (?), and I shall carry out the yearly works, sowings, cleanings and siphon-work, sowing for the first three years whatever I choose, and in the fourth with grass for cutting as dry fodder; and I shall pay you the yearly rent in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor of the arouras, new, clean, unadulterated, the yearly public transport charges being my responsibility, Horos; and after the term I shall hand over the arouras after the cutting of the grass, clean of rushes, reeds, dog's-tooth grass and all dirt, if you see fit to consent on the foregoing terms, and free from public charges. I, Marcus Anthestius Gemellus, have leased as stated above. Year 6 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, month of Mesore, intercalary days […].