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Offer to lease eight arouras of grain land at Theogonis TM 12360Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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An offer to lease eight arouras of grain land near Theogonis for six years, made by two farmers, Pennis and Syros, to three former gymnasiarchs, Ptollarion, Geminus and Amatius alias Paulinus. The land is to alternate yearly between fodder for sheep (money rent of 64 drachmas) and wheat (rent of 107 artabas).

In English machine translation

To Ptollarion son of Ptollarion, former gymnasiarch, and to Geminus, former gymnasiarch, and Amatius also called Paulinus, both sons of Patron, former gymnasiarch, from Pennis son of Orsenouphis, son of Pennis, from the village of Theogonis, and Syros son of Demetrios, from the Macedonians' quarter, the two farmers and mutual sureties for payment. We wish to lease from you for six years from the coming eleventh year of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord the eight arouras of grain land belonging to you, to Ptollarion for one half share and to Geminus and his partner for the remaining half, near the aforementioned village of Theogonis, in the so-called [kleros of Pyrrhos], in two basins: the first, [third] and fifth year for sowing with fodder for grazing sheep, at a rent for the [three-year period] of 64 drachmas of silver per year, without seed, for the whole 8 arouras; and the second, fourth and sixth [year] for sowing with wheat, at a rent in kind for the [three-year period] per year, including the 8 artabas of wheat seed which we shall receive, of 107 artabas of wheat in all, free from all deductions and risks; and we shall carry out the yearly work as is fitting at the proper seasons, causing no damage, and we shall deliver the rents in kind each year in the month of Pauni on the threshing floor, new and clean, by your own six-choinix measure, the measuring being done by your agents, and the money rent in Phamenoth, all public taxes being the responsibility of you the landowners, and the yearly transport charges and supplementary dues being ours; and after the term we shall hand back the arouras clean of rushes, reeds, couch grass and all weeds, if it seems good to you to lease.

The emperor 'Aurelius Antoninus Caesar' is probably Marcus Aurelius, which would place year 11 around AD 170/171, but no exact date is given in the records. 'Epispoudasmos' is a supplementary charge with no exact English equivalent.

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.

p.mil.vogl.2.63

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

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