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End of a land lease offer accepted by Sabinus, former gymnasiarch TM 12374Tebtynis (Arsinoites)7. Okt. 165

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End of an offer to lease arable land near Tebtynis, setting out the payment of rent in kind at harvest and the return of the land clean of weeds. The lessor, Sabinus, a former gymnasiarch, signs his acceptance, and Nikarios adds her consent. Dated 7 October 165.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] [and] we will pay [the] rent [each year] in the month of Pauni on the threshing floor, [new, clean, unadulterated], by [your own] six-choinix measure, the measuring being done by [one of] your people, the costs of the wheat sowing, transport and expediting being our responsibility, and the delivery of the rent to you; and after the period we will hand over the arouras clean of rushes, reeds, couch-grass and all filth. If it seems good, lease. (Subscription) I, Sabinus, former gymnasiarch, have leased as aforesaid. [Year 6 of Antoninus] and Verus the lords [Augusti], Phaophi 10. I, Nikarios, have consented, others being entitled to sublease.

The document takes the form of a lease offer ending with 'if it seems good, lease', which the landowner then accepts. Nikarios' role is uncertain; she may be co-owner or guardian, and her subscription allows others to sublease the land.

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 Nicario e X). 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.3.131

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 7. Okt. 165 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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