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Application for lease of an olive crop near Kerkesoucha and Karanis TM 12053Karanis (Arsinoites)29. Aug. - 26. Dez. 102

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An offer to lease the olive crop of two groves, one of two arouras near Kerkesoucha and one of one aroura near Karanis, addressed by Kastor son of Pnepheros to Diodoros and his son Hatres. The rent is 2 metretai of olive oil payable in Tybi. Written at Karanis in AD 102, Trajan's 6th year.

In English machine translation

To Diodoros son of Hatres and to his son Hatres, from Kastor son of Pnepheros, Persian of the epigone. I wish to lease from you the olive crops now on the trees and fallen for the present 6th year of Trajan Caesar the lord, from the olive grove of two arouras belonging to you, Diodoros, near Kerkesoucha, and from the olive grove of one aroura near Karanis which Hatres holds from Ptolemaios son of Kastor under a lease with advance payment, at a total rent in olive oil, strained, new, pure, unadulterated, of 1 metretes for the two arouras near Kerkesoucha and 1 metretes for the one aroura near Karanis, together 2 metretai, which I shall also pay at the time of the harvesting (?) in the month Tybi, if you agree to lease. […] about […] years old, scar on the left knee. […]

A 'Persian of the epigone' was a legal status designation, by this time largely a formula in contracts. A 'lease with advance payment' (prodomatike misthosis) is one in which the rent was paid beforehand.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 29. Aug. - 26. Dez. 102 · Karanis (Arsinoites)

Διοδώρωι Ἁτρείους καὶ τῶι υἱῶι Ἁτρῆτι παρὰ Κάστορος τοῦ Πνεφερῶτος Πέρσου τῆς ἐπιγονῆς. βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ τοὺς ἐπικειμένους καὶ ἐκπεπτωκότας εἰς τὸ ἐνεστὸς ἕκτον ἔτος Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ἐλαικοὺς καρποὺς τῶν ὑπαρχόντων σοι μεν Διοδώρωι περὶ Κερκεσοῦχα ἐλαιῶνο…