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Lease offer for 2 1/2 arouras of land at Tebtynis for hay and barley TM 12377Tebtynis (Arsinoites)165 - 166

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Offer to lease 2 1/2 arouras of cleruchic land near Tebtynis for four years, made by Onnophris son of Kronion and Eudaimon son of Maximus to the minor Ptollarion, represented by his guardian Sabinus. Hay is to be grown in the first and third years for a money rent of 24 drachmas, and barley in the second and fourth for a rent in kind; it dates to AD 165-166.

In English machine translation

To Ptollarion, son of Ptollarion, former gymnasiarch, a minor, through his guardian Sabinus, former gymnasiarch, from Onnophris son of Kronion son of Pakebkis, from the village of Tebtynis, and Eudaimon son of Maximus son of Hermeas, from the Tameia quarter, the two of us. We wish to lease from you for four years from the present sixth year of Antoninus and Verus the lords Augusti, near the village of Tebtynis, 2 1/2 arouras of a kleros, or however many there may be; the first and third year for sowing with hay, at a rent per year without seed of 24 silver drachmas; and the second and fourth year for sowing with barley, at a rent for the two-year period per year, together with the 2 artabas of barley we shall receive as seed, in all […] artabas of barley, by your own six-choinix measure, all free from deductions […]

The total barley rent is lost, and the end of the document is missing. The phrase 'without seed' (aspermei) means the lessor supplies no seed for the hay years.

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 Onnofri ed Eudaimon). 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.3.134

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 165 - 166 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

Πτολλαρίωνι υἱῷ Πτολλαρίωνοςγεγυμνασιαρχηκότος ἀφήλικι διʼ ἐπιτρόπου Σαβείνου γεγυμνασιαρχηκότος παρὰ Ὀννώφρεως Κρονίωνος τοῦ Πακήβκεως ἀπὸ κώμης Τεπτύνεως καὶ Εὐδαίμωνος Μαξίμου τοῦ Ἑρμέως ἀπὸ ἀμφόδου Ταμείων, τῶν δύο . βουλόμεθα μισθώσασθαι παρά σου εἰς ἔτη τέσσερα ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνεσ…