Application to Sublease Date Crop
Application addressed by Maron, son of Melankomas, and Eukrates, son of Herakleides, to Herakleides, son of Pnepheros, by which they request the right to sublease from him two-thirds of the crop of a palm grove
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Application to sublease two-thirds of a date-palm crop TM 12295Tebtynis? (Arsinoites)September 26, 38 A.D.
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An application by Maron son of Melankomas and Eukrates son of Herakleides to Herakleides son of Pnepheros, asking to sublease two-thirds of a date-palm crop that he himself holds on lease, for a rent of 26 drachmas 4 obols plus one artaba of Syrian dates. It is dated 26 September AD 38, probably at Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
To Herakleides son of Pnepheros,
from Maron son of Melankomas and Eukrates son of Herakleides. We wish to lease the two-thirds share of the date-palm crops that have fallen in for the present third year of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, which you also hold on lease. We undertake to pay as rent in all 26 drachmas 4 obols of coined silver, which we will also pay in the month of Tybi of the same year, if it seems good to you to lease to us on the aforesaid terms.
Year 3 of Gaius Caesar Augustus, month Sebastos 29.
Eukrates son of Herakleides, aged 30, scar below the left cheek.
I, Maron son of Melankomas, have jointly submitted the aforesaid application. And we will pay 1 artaba of Syrian dates by the date-measure of the racecourse (?).
Year 3 of Gaius Caesar
[Augustus, month Sebastos 29.]
Sebastos is the honorific name for the month Thoth. The meaning of the measure 'of the dromoi' used for dates is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application to Sublease Date 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.
p.mich.12.630
Ἡρακλείδῃ Πνεφερῶτος παρὰ Μάρωνος τοῦ Μελανκωμου καὶ Εὐκράτου τοῦ Ἡρακλείδου. βουλόμεθα μισθώσασθαι τὸ δίμοιρον μέρος τῶν ἐκπεπτωκότων εἰς τὸ ἐνεστὸς τρίτον ἔτος Γαίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ φοινικίνων καρπῶν ὧν καὶ σὺ ἔχεις ἐν μισθώσει. ὑφιστάμεθα τελέσειν φόρον τοῦ παντὸς…