An offer to sublease about 30 1/4 arouras of land near Tebtynis, made by two villagers, Aunes and Heron, to Philotera daughter of Ptolemaios, who herself leases the land, for two years at 172 artabas of barley a year plus small gifts. The land belonged to the estate of the Alexandrians, formerly of Queen Cleopatra, and Philotera's acceptance is added at the end. Written at Tebtynis in AD 124.
In English machine translation
To Philotera daughter of Ptolemaios, citizen woman, acting without a guardian,
from Aunes son of […]ion and Heron son of Amatios, both from the village of Tebtynis in the division of Polemon, Persians of the Epigone. We wish to lease from you, under mutual guarantee, for two years from the coming ninth year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, out of the land which you too hold on lease, thirty and a quarter arouras or however many they may be, in which […], at a total annual rent, without seed, of 172 artabas of barley, and as customary gifts each year […] 1 artaba and two cocks worth 2 drachmas each, free from all deductions and risks. And we shall carry out all the farming work of the arouras each year that is proper, at our own expense, at the right seasons, doing no damage; sowing each year one half with whatever crops we choose except […], and the other half with barley. And we shall pay the annual rents in the month of Pauni by your own 6-choinix measure, the public transport charges being borne by us the lessees. When the term is completed we shall hand over the arouras clean of rush and all weeds, if it seems good to you to grant the lease. The arouras belong to the estate of the Alexandrians around Tebtynis, formerly of Queen Cleopatra the sister.
I, Philotera daughter of Ptolemaios, without a guardian, have granted the lease as stated above. Year […] of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus […]
"Persians of the Epigone" is a legal status label of Ptolemaic origin, not an ethnicity. An ousia (estate) such as the one here was former royal property administered by the state in the Roman period.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Subaffitto di terreno incluso nell’ οἶκος τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.