Offer to lease cleruchic land near Theogonis TM 12381Tebtynis (Arsinoites)7. Nov. 169

To Ptollarion son of Ptollarion, former gymnasiarch, and to Gemeinos, former gymnasiarch, and to Amatios also called Paulinus, both sons of Patron, former gymnasiarch, Gemeinos being absent and represented by Amatios also called Paulinus, from Satyros son of Herakleides son of Heraklas, registered in the quarter of the Tameia, and his son Polion, the two of them […]. We wish to lease from you for four years from the present tenth year the 8 arouras, or however many there may be, of cleruchic land near the village of Theogonis belonging to you, to Ptollarion for one half share and to the other two for the remaining half share, […]; in the first and third year for sowing with hay as pasture for sheep without rent, and in the second and fourth year for sowing with wheat, at a rent for the two-year period, including the 8 artabas of wheat seed which I shall receive, of a total per year for the two-year period of 120 artabas of wheat […] by the six-choinix measure of the granary of Ptollarion and others, all free from deductions and risk, we performing all the work on the arouras that is required at our own expense at the proper times; and we shall pay the rents each year in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor, new, clean and unadulterated, the measuring being done by one of you, the yearly transport charges for expedition being borne by you, but the delivery of the rents being our responsibility; and after the term we shall hand over the arouras clean of rushes, reeds, dog's-tooth grass and all weeds, if it seems good to you to lease. Satyros, about 40 years old, scar by the left ankle. Polion, about 20 years old, scar on the little finger of the left hand. Year 10 of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord, Hathyr 11.