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Offer to lease cleruchic land near Theogonis for hay and barley TM 12421Tebtynis (Arsinoites)118 - 138

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An offer to lease farmland, addressed to Gemeinos by a man registered as a Persian of the Epigone, for four years near Theogonis in the Arsinoite nome. The land was to alternate between fodder hay and barley, with rent in barley, a customary gift of a cock, and payment in Pauni. It dates to Hadrian's reign and comes from Tebtynis.

In English machine translation

To Gemeinos […] […], son of […]orion, one of the […] Persians of the Epigone. I wish to lease from you for four years from the […] coming year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, from the cleruchic land belonging to you near Theogonis, […] arouras […] in the place called Petesios […] […] of the lease, the first and third year of the lease for sowing hay as fodder for cattle, with […] of the hay belonging to you, Gemeinos, and the rest to me; and the second and fourth year of the lease for sowing barley, at a rent for the two-year period, each year, together with the […] artabas of barley that I shall receive for seed, of […] artabas of barley […] and as customary gifts each year one cock worth 4 drachmas, all free from deductions and risk; and I shall carry out all the work at my own expense and I shall pay the rent each year in the month of Pauni, the transport costs being my responsibility; and after the term I shall return the arouras clear of all filth; and the aforesaid rent by the […] measure of the granary of Theogonis […] […] about 30 years old, scar on the right knee. […] I described (?) Year […] of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Mecheir 10.

"Persian of the Epigone" was a legal status designation, not an ethnic description, by the Roman period. The rotation of hay and barley and the barley amounts depend heavily on restoration.

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.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.mil.vogl.4.240

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 118 - 138 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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