One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12379

Offer to lease allotment land near Theogonis from a minor TM 12379Tebtynis (Arsinoites)165 - 166 (?)

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Offer to lease 10 arouras of allotment land near Theogonis for four years, made by Patron son of Zoilos and a partner to the minor Ptollarion, acting through his guardian Sabinus, a former gymnasiarch. It sets out the crop rotation, with part of the land reserved for sheep fodder. Written at Tebtynis around AD 165-166.

In English machine translation

To Ptollarion, a minor, son of Ptollarion, through his guardian Sabinus, former gymnasiarch, from Patron son of Zoilos and […] son of Demetrios, both from […] quarter […]. We wish to lease from you for four years from the present sixth year of Antoninus and Verus the lords, near the village of Theogonis, 10 arouras of a kleros, or however many they may be, called […], on condition that in the first and third year you sow 7 arouras for yourself with grass for pasturing sheep, and the remaining 3 arouras we choose for sowing with anything except lentils, arakos, wheat and barley […]

Arakos is a leguminous fodder or pulse crop, probably a kind of vetch, with no exact English equivalent. Much of the text, including the lease period and crop terms, is restored, and the end of the document 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 Patron 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.

p.mil.vogl.3.136

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

Πτολλαρίωνι ἀφήλικι υἱῷ Πτολλαρίωνος διʼ ἐπιτρόπου Σαβείνου γεγυμνασιαρχηκότος παρὰ Πάτρωνος Ζωΐλου καὶ[…]…ρ… Δημητρίου τῶν δύο ἀπὸ[…] […]π…ι[…]ἀμφόδου[…] βουλόμεθα μισθώσασθαι παρά σου εἰς ἔτη τέσσερα ἀπὸ ἐνεστῶτος ἕκτου ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Οὐήρου τῶν κυρίων περὶ κώμην Θεογονίδα…