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Lease of ten arouras of land at Tebtynis TM 12436Tebtynis (Arsinoites)141

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The end of a land lease from Tebtynis in AD 141, in which two lessees, Ptollarion son of Paulinus and Sarapion son of Amatios, take 10 arouras of land on lease. They undertake the farming, a crop rotation with a final year of fodder grass, payment of rent in wheat, barley and money, and the return of the land clean of weeds.

In English machine translation

[... lines lost ...] [...] and we the lessees of the arouras will carry out each year all the farming work that is required, at our own expense, at the proper seasons, causing no damage, sowing each year the one half part of the 10 arouras with wheat and barley, and the remaining half for the first five years with whatever crops we choose, and in the last year with grass for cutting and drying and for grazing by whatever animals they choose; and we 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 supervision being your responsibility, and the conveyance of the rents also being your responsibility; [...] [...] of the money rent of the present fifth year [...] of the lease [...] all free from deductions and from risk; and after the term we will hand over the holding clean of couch-grass, rush and all; the lease being free of all public dues; if it seems good to lease. I, Ptollarion son of Paulinus, have leased on the aforesaid terms. I, Sarapion son of Amatios, have leased for the 19 1/2 artabas of wheat and 5 artabas of barley and 130 drachmas of silver, as stated above.

The opening with the lessors' names and the term is lost; much of the surviving text is restored from standard lease formulas. The rent combines grain (19 1/2 artabas of wheat, 5 of barley) and 130 silver drachmas.

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.6.271

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 141 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

[… ? lines lost …] […]καὶ ἐπιτελέσομεν τὰ κατʼ ἔτος ἡμεῖς οἱ μισθούμενοι τῶν ἀρουρῶν γεωργικὰ ἔργα πάντα ὅσα καθήκει ἐκ τοῦ ἰδίου τοῖς δέουσι καιροῖς, βλάβος μηδὲν ποιοῦντες, σπείροντες κατʼ ἔτος τὸ μὲν ἥμισυ μέρος ἀρουρῶν δέκα πυρῷ καὶ κριθῇ, τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν ἥμισυ ἐπὶ μὲν τὰ πρῶτα …