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Lease of three arouras of catoecic land at Tebtynis with crop rotation TM 12411Tebtynis (Arsinoites)132 - 133

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An offer to lease three arouras of catoecic land near Tebtynis for six years, made by Kronion son of Pakebkis to the landowner Didymos also called Lourios. The land alternates yearly between fodder grass for a money rent and wheat for a rent of 30 artabas, with the owner's signed acceptance, dated year 17 of Hadrian (AD 132/3).

In English machine translation

To Didymos also called Lourios, son of Lysimachos, from Kronion son of Pakebkis, of those from the village of Tebtynis, Persian of the Epigone. I wish to lease from you for six years from the coming eighteenth year of Hadrian Caesar the lord the three arouras belonging to you near Tebtynis in the so-called western plain, of a catoecic allotment, held in common […] called […], the first, third and fifth year of the lease for sowing with grass for cattle fodder and for stabling, at a yearly rent for the three arouras of […] four silver drachmas, and the second, fourth and sixth year for sowing with wheat, at a rent for the three years, yearly, together with the 3 artabas of seed wheat which I shall receive, in total yearly for the three arouras 30 artabas of wheat by the four-choinix measure of the granary of Tebtynis, and as gifts for the three years, yearly, 1 hen worth 2 drachmas, all free from deductions and risks, and I shall carry out the yearly work that is due, and I shall pay the rent in kind yearly in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor, and the money rent in Phamenoth, the public transport charges and the surcharge being my responsibility, and the conveyance of the rent in kind yours; and after the term I shall hand back the arouras clear of couch grass and all weeds except rushes and reeds. You shall guarantee the lease to me and keep it free from public charges […]. I, Didymos also called Lourios, son of Lysimachos, have leased as stated above. Year 17 of Imperator Trajan Hadrian Augustus.

"Persian of the Epigone" is a legal-status designation of Greco-Egyptian descent, no longer an ethnic label in this period. The amount of the money rent is partly 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 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.

p.mil.vogl.4.220

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 132 - 133 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

Διδύμωι τῶι καὶ Λουρίωι Λυσιμάχου παρὰ Κρονίωνος τοῦ Πακήβκιος τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Τεβτύνεως, Πέρσου τῆς ἐπιγονῆς. βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ εἰς ἔτη ἓξ ἀπὸ τοῦ εἰσιόντος ὀκτωκαιδεκάτου ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου τὰς ὑπαρχούσας σοι περὶ Τεβτῦνιν ἐν τῶι λεγομένωι ἀπὸ λιβὸς πε…