One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12362

Lease of arable land from Sabinus, former gymnasiarch TM 12362Tebtynis (Arsinoites)165

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Fragment of a land lease in the form of an offer from tenants to the landowner Sabinus, a former gymnasiarch, who signs his acceptance. The tenants undertake the farm work, pay rent in grain in Pauni at the threshing floor and return the land clean of weeds at the end of the term. Written at Tebtynis in AD 165.

In English machine translation

… […]…[…] [of rent, together with the] artabas [of seed which] we shall receive […] by the four-choinix measure […] […] all the annual [agricultural work] of the arouras, and we shall [pay] the annual rents [in the month] Pauni at the threshing floor, clean and unadulterated, [the measuring taking] place through one of your agents, and [after the term] we shall hand over the arouras clean [of couch-grass, dried rush] and all [weeds], except rush and reed, if [it seems good] to lease. I, Sabinus, former gymnasiarch, have leased. [Year 6] of Antoninus and Verus the lords [Augusti] […] I, […] Nikaris (?), have followed (?), there being authority [for others] to sublease.

The opening with the parties, land and rent is lost; much of the surviving text is restored from standard lease formulas. The final clause allows the land to be subleased to others.

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.2.67

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 165 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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