Offer to lease eight arouras near Theogonis for fodder and wheat TM 12382Tebtynis (Arsinoites)7. Nov. 169

To Ptollarion son of Ptollarion, former gymnasiarch, and Geminus, former gymnasiarch, and Amatius also called Paulinus, both sons of Patron, former gymnasiarch, Geminus being absent and represented by Amatius also called Paulinus, from Satyros son of Herakleides son of Heraklas, registered in the quarter of the Storehouses, and his son Polion, both [...]. We wish to lease from you for four years from the present tenth year the eight arouras, or however many they may be, of catoecic(?) land belonging to you, to Ptollarion for one half share and to the other two for the remaining half share, near the village of Theogonis, of the kleros [...], in the first and third year for sowing with fodder for grazing sheep without rent, and in the second and fourth year for sowing with wheat, the rent for the two years being, per year, together with the 8 artabas of wheat seed which I shall receive, in all per year for the two years 120 artabas of wheat, by the six-choinix measure of the granary of Ptollarion and others, all free from deductions and risks; we shall carry out all the work on the arouras that is proper at our own expense at the due seasons, and we shall pay the rent 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 speeding up being your responsibility, but the conveyance of the rent ours; and after the term we shall hand back the arouras clean of rushes, reeds, dog's-tooth grass and all weeds. If it seems good to you, lease. Year 10 of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord, Hathyr 11.