Lease of half of the Woodland of the God at Tebtynis TM 12123Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptDecember 5, 37 A.D.

Year two of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, month Peritios 9, Choiak 9, at Tebtynis in the division of Polemon of the Arsinoite nome. Horos son of Harmiysis son of Horparês, about 68 years old, with a scar on the right forearm, and Orsenouphis son of Horouanchis, about 58, with a scar on the right calf, and Harmaeis son of Petesouchos, about 55, with a scar on the left calf, and Stotoêtis son of Kollouthos, about 50, with a scar on the little finger of the left hand, and Haunês son of Tephorsôs, about 33, with a scar on the forehead at the left, and Onnophris son of Kollouthos, about 35, with a scar on the right knee, the six elders of the public cultivators of the same village, and Harmiysis son of Orseus, secretary of the cultivators, about 55, with a scar on the right forearm, the seven, have leased to Herakleides son of Didymos, Persian of the Epigone, about 50, with a scar on the middle of the nose, {to have leased to him} the one-half share of the so-called Woodland of the God, the parts on the eastern side, near the same village Tebtynis, of bark (?) and arum and korsia, and of the so-called Kanabis (?), dry-land pastures (?), for two years from the present second year of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; and of the arum also to thrust (?) for the feeding of piglets; at a total annual rent of 60 drachmas of coined silver, principal. We, Horos son of Harmiysis son of Horparês and Orsenouphis son of Horouanchis and Harmaeis son of Petesouchos and Stotoêtis son of Kollouthos and Haunês son of Tephorsôs and Onnophris son of Kollouthos, the six elders of the public cultivators, and Harmiysis, secretary of the cultivators, the seven of the same cultivators, acknowledge that we have leased to Herakleides son of Didymos the half share of the so-called Woodland of the God, the parts on the eastern side near the same village Tebtynis, of bark (?) and arum and korsia, and of the so-called Kanabis (?), dry-land pastures (?), for two years from the present […] [… 1 line lost …]