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End of an offer to lease farmland, in which the prospective tenants undertake that the landowners will bear the public dues and that the land will be returned clean of weeds and mud at the end of the term. It closes with descriptions of two of the applicants and a date in the reign of Marcus Aurelius, AD 170, at Tebtynis in the Fayum.
This is a duplicate copy of the same lease offer. An aroura is an Egyptian land measure of about 0.68 acre; the description of the transport charges is largely restored.
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 terreno). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] […]ὑμῶν τῆς μετρήσεως γεινομένης διὰ φροντιστῶν ὑμῶν τῶν δημοσίων πάντων ὄντων πρὸς ὑμᾶς τοὺς γεούχους τῶν δὲ καθʼ ἔτος φορέτρων ἐπισπουδασμοῦ πρὸς ἡμᾶς καὶ μετὰ τὸν χρόνον παραδώσομεν τὰς ἀρούρας καθαρὰς ἀπὸ θρύου καλάμου ἀγρώστεως δείσης πάσης. ἐὰν φαίνηται μ…
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