End of a lease offer for farmland in which the tenant undertakes the farming work, payment of rents in kind at the threshing floor in Pauni and a money rent in Phamenoth, and return of the land clean of weeds. Ptollarion the elder, Ptollarion the younger and Sarapion also called Heron sign as accepting the lease, at Tebtynis in AD 129.
In English machine translation
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[...] [all the farming work on the arourae each year that is required, at my own expense, at the proper seasons; and] I will pay you the rents [each year in the month of Pauni] at the threshing floor, new, clean, unadulterated, and the money rent in the month of Phamenoth, the annual transport charges for prompt delivery being my responsibility, while the conveyance of the rents is yours; and after the term I will hand over the arourae clean of all couch grass [and rush] except reed-rush; and you shall guarantee the lease to me and keep it free of all public charges. If it seems good, to lease.
I, Ptollarion the elder, son of Amatios, have leased on all the foregoing terms as stated above. I, Ptollarion the younger, [...], have leased as stated above.
I, Sarapion also called Heron, son of Amatios, have leased as stated above.
Year 13 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Pachon 29.
The beginning, with the description of the land and the parties, is lost. Oddly, the signatories write 'I have leased' (as lessors) although the body is phrased by the tenant.
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.