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Lease of land at Tebtynis TM 12353Tebtynis (Arsinoites)153 - 154

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Fragmentary lease offer of farmland from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome, in which the lessee undertakes to pay an annual rent in grain plus a cock worth 2 drachmas, to sow half the land with barley, and to pay the rent in Pauni at the threshing floor. The subscription names a woman, Herakleia, acting with her son as guardian, and the document is dated to year 17 of Antoninus Pius (AD 153-154).

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] […] each year […] artabas […] by the [measure …] choinix of the granary of the village of Te[btynis, and a cock] worth 2 drachmas, free from deductions and risk, and I will carry out the appropriate work, sowing each year one half with barley, and the remaining half with whatever [I choose], except wheat and barley and arakos; and I will pay the rents in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor, clean, unadulterated, of new crop, free of risk [to me the lessee], the responsibility for the annual transport charges being [mine], but the conveyance of the rents being yours; [and after the] period I will hand over (the land) after the gathering [of the crop …] clean of rush and sedge [and all weeds except reed (?)] and cane. And I will guarantee the lease to you […] from public […] […] Herakleia, daughter of Did[…], with her guardian, her son […] I have leased as stated above. […] Year 17 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius […]

Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop, probably a vetch. The clause on transport charges is heavily restored, and it is unclear whether Herakleia is the lessee or the lessor.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Affitto di terreno). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.mil.vogl.2.107

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 153 - 154 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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