One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12124

Lease of a catoecic allotment with alternating money and wheat rent TM 12124Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Probably) 44-45 A.D.

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Draft of a four-year lease in which Kronion son of Zoilos leases a catoecic allotment of 2 1/2 arouras to Tenouphis son of Orseus and Kronion son of Labesis. Rent alternates between money plus lentils in years one and three and 15 artabas of wheat in years two and four. It comes from the Arsinoite nome, probably Tebtynis, around AD 43-45.

In English machine translation

Kronion son of Zoilos, aged about 40, with scars on both cheeks, has leased to Tenouphis son of Orseus, aged about 43, with a scar on the outside of the left hand, and to Kronion son of Labesis, aged about 29, with a scar on the nose below the space between the eyebrows, a catoecic allotment of 2 1/2 arouras, or however many there may be, in one parcel, for 4 years from year 5, ⟦of the first⟧ for sowing with whatever crops the lessees choose each year, at a rent, for the first and third year of the lease, each year, without seed, of 24 silver drachmas and 1/2 artaba of lentils, and for the second and fourth year of the lease ⟦each year⟧ a rent in kind each year, including seed of 2 1/2 artabas of wheat, in total each year 15 artabas of wheat, by the 4-choinix measure of the granary of the god of the village. After the term they shall hand over the allotment clean of all rushes, and the surrounding dykes heaped up; and the money rent and the rents in kind each year in the month of Pauni, and the rents in kind in the village.

A catoecic allotment (kleros katoikikos) was land originally held by military settlers, later freely transferable. The text is a draft with deletions, and the 'year 5' is probably of Claudius, which suggests AD 44-45.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease of Farm 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.

Lease of Farm Land

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 691 · (Probably) 44-45 A.D. · Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Draft of a contract by which Kronion, son of Zoilos, leases to Tenouphis, son of Orseus, and Kronion, son of Labesis, a catoecic allotment of two and one-half arourai

p.mich.5.315

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 43 - 45 · Arsinoites

ἐμίσθωσεν Κρονίων Ζωίλου ὡς ἐτῶν μ, οὐλαὶ μήλοις ἀμφοτέροις, Τενούφι Ὀρσεῦτος ὡς ἐτῶν μγ, οὐλὴ χειρὶ ἀριστερᾷ ἐκτός, καὶ Κρονίωνι Λαβήσιος ὡς ἐτῶν κθ, οὐλὴ ῥινὶ ὑπὸ μεσόφρυον, κλῆρον κατοικικὸν ἀρουρῶν β 𐅵 ἢ ὅσαι ἐὰν ὦσιν ἐν μιᾷ σφραγῖδι εἰς ἔτη δ ἀπὸ τοῦ ε ἔτους εἰς σπορὰν ὧν ἐὰ…