An offer to lease 10 arouras of catoecic land near Tebtynis for four years, made by two cousins, Kronion and Harphaesis, to the landowner Taotis, acting with her son as guardian. The land alternates between wheat and barley in the first and third years, paid in grain, and hay in the second and fourth years, paid in money.
In English machine translation
To Taotis daughter of Ptolemaios, with her guardian, her son Ptolemaios son of Lourios also called Apollonios,
from Kronion son of Heron son of Herakleios and his paternal cousin Harphaesis son of Herakleios son of Herakleios, both from the village of Tebtynis, Persians of the Epigone. We wish to lease, on mutual security, for four years from the coming eighth year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, from the kleroi belonging to you near Tebtynis, the 10 arouras of catoecic kleros in one parcel, or however many there may be, in the place called Ilatos (?), the first and third year of the lease for sowing, one half with wheat and the other half with barley, at a total rent for the two-year period, per year, including the seed which we shall receive from you, 5 artabas of wheat and 5 artabas of barley, of in all per year 50 artabas of wheat and 90 artabas of barley, all by the four-choinix measure of the granary of Tebtynis; and the second and fourth year of the lease for sowing with hay to be cut for drying, at a rent for the two-year period, per year, without seed, of 100 drachmas of silver and […] Taotis one aroura of hay by the measuring-cord to be cut, from whatever end or portion she chooses, from the aforementioned arouras […] and […]
as gifts for the two-year period, per year, one bird worth 2 drachmas,
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We shall perform all the yearly agricultural work on the arouras that is fitting, at our own expense and at the proper times, causing no damage, and we shall deliver all the rents in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor, new, clean, unadulterated, the measuring being done by some of your people, and the money rent in Phamenoth, the yearly transport charges, extra fees and donkey-driving costs being our responsibility, and those for conveying the rents to you; and after the term we shall hand back the arouras clean of rushes, reeds, dog's-tooth grass and all scrub. You shall guarantee the lease to us and keep it free from all public charges, if you agree to lease.
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The second half is largely restored from standard lease formulas. "Persians of the Epigone" was a legal status designation rather than an ethnic one by this period.
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.