Sublease of Land
Unfinished contract by which Harmaeis and Patynis, both sons of Marepsemis, and Haryotes, son of Sokeus, sublease 18 arourai of land to Didymos the younger, son of Lysimachos
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12296
Sublease of 18 arouras for growing fodder at Tebtynis TM 12296Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptAugust 10, 26 A.D.
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An unfinished contract in which Harmaeis and Patynis, sons of Marepsemis, and Haryotes son of Sokeus sublease to Didymos the younger, son of Lysimachos, 18 arouras of land they themselves lease from Herakleios, to be sown with grass-pea as sheep fodder. It was drawn up at Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome in AD 26.
In English machine translation
Year 12 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, month Hyperberetaios 17th, Mesore 17, at Tebtynis of the Polemon division of the Arsinoite nome. Harmaeis, aged about 34, with a scar on the left shin, and Patynis, aged about 29, with a scar, both sons of Marepsemis, and Haryotes son of Sokeus, lesonis, aged about 43, with a scar, the three Persians of the epigone, each surety for the others for payment, have leased to Didymos the younger, son of Lysimachos, aged about 30, with a scar on the right shin, that they have leased to him, out of the land which they themselves hold on lease from Herakleios son of Herakleios, called […]deutos, 18 arouras of land in two parcels, for sowing with grass-pea as fodder for sheep, Didymos supplying the seed himself, while the lessors carry out the irrigations and the dyke-works, for which the lessors have received from Didymos forthwith, from hand to hand, out of the house […] […]
The contract was left unfinished by the scribe, breaking off at the payment clause. "Persians of the epigone" was a legal status designation, not an ethnic one, and a lesonis was a temple administrator.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sublease 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.12.632
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