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Offer to lease cleruchic land at Tebtynis for hay and barley TM 12378Tebtynis (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, acting through his guardian Sabinus, a former gymnasiarch. In alternate years the land is to be sown with hay, which the lessees cut and dry for a wage, and with barley for a rent in kind. It dates to the sixth year of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

In English machine translation

To Ptollarion, son of Ptollarion, former gymnasiarch, a minor, through his guardian Sabinus, former gymnasiarch, from Onnophris son of Kronion, grandson of Pakebkis, from the village of Tebtynis, and Eudaimon son of Maximus, grandson of Hermes, 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 they may be, in the first and third year for sowing with hay, you sowing it for yourself, and for cutting and drying, you paying us for the labour 4 drachmas for each aroura; and in the second and fourth year for sowing with barley, at a rent, together with which we shall receive 2 1/2 artabas of barley for seed, the total of barley […] artabas […] […]

The lease alternates: in hay years the lessees work as paid labourers for the owner, while in barley years they pay rent (ekphorion). The end of the text, with the rent amount, is lost.

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.3.135

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

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