Application for Lease of Grain Land
Offer, made by Kastor son of Kopres to Chairemon son of Polydeukes, to lease for three years some catoecic land near Kerkesoucha
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12057
Offer to lease catoecic land near Kerkesoucha TM 12057probably either Kerkesoucha or Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt215/216 A.D.
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An offer by Kastor son of Kopres to lease from Chairemon son of Polydeukes 1 1/2 arouras of catoecic land near Kerkesoucha for three years at an annual rent of 3 artabas of wheat, payable in Pauni, with the landowner bearing the public taxes. It is dated to year 24 of Caracalla (AD 215/216) and comes from the Karanis area of the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
To Chairemon son of Polydeukes,
from Kastor son of Kopres.
I wish to lease from you the 1 1/2 arouras of catoecic allotment land belonging to you near the village of Kerkesoucha, in the place called Pasenkem, for three years, three sowings, from the present 24th year, at a yearly rent of 3 artabas of wheat, exclusive of seed, all the public dues to be charged to you as landowner; which rent I shall also pay in the month of Pauni without delay. And I shall carry out all the farming work that is proper at the appropriate seasons.
I, Kastor son of Kopres, have leased as stated above.
Year 24 of Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Parthicus Maximus Britannicus Maximus Germanicus Maximus Pius Augustus.
Catoecic land was allotment land originally held by military settlers, later freely transferable. The papyrus may have been written at Kerkesoucha or Karanis.
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 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.
p.mich.9.565
Χαιρήμονι Πολυδεύκους παρὰ Κάστορος Κοπρῆ. βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ τὰς ὑπαρχούσας σοι περὶ κώμην Κερκεσοῦχα κλήρου κατοικικοῦ ἄρουραν μίαν ἥμισυ ἐν τόπῳ Πασενκεμ λεγομένῳ εἰς ἔτη τρία σπορὰς τρῖς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος κδ ἔτους ἐκφορίου κατʼ ἔτος πυροῦ ἀρταβῶν τριῶν χωρὶς σπερμά…