An offer to lease 6 1/4 arouras of cleruchic land near Tebtynis for four years, addressed by two or more applicants to the minor Ptollarion through his guardian Sabinus, a former gymnasiarch. Barley is to be grown in alternate years for a rent of 81 1/4 artabas, and hay for the landowner's sheep in the other years, with the tenants paid 4 drachmas per aroura for the work.
In English machine translation
To Ptollarion son of Ptollarion, a minor, through his guardian Sabinus, former gymnasiarch,
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We wish to lease from you for four years from the present sixth year of Antoninus and Verus the lords Augusti the 6 1/4 arouras of cleruchic land belonging to you near the village of Tebtynis in the place called 'Of Kategoros', the first and third year for sowing with barley, at a rent, including the 6 1/4 artabas of barley seed which we shall receive, of 81 1/4 artabas of barley in all each year, by the four-choinix measure of the granary of Tebtynis; and the second and fourth year for sowing with hay, which you will sow for yourself as fodder for sheep, we receiving for the work on each aroura 4 drachmas, all free from deductions and risk; we shall carry out all the yearly work on the arouras that is appropriate at our own expense at the proper times, doing no damage, and we shall pay the rent each year in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor by the four-choinix measure of Tebtynis […]
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The lessors' names are lost. The sixth year of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus corresponds to AD 165/166.
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 X e Y). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.