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Offer to lease cleruchic land near Tebtynis from the former gymnasiarch Patron TM 12438Tebtynis (Arsinoites)168

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Offer to lease cleruchic farmland near Tebtynis for six years, addressed to Patron, a former gymnasiarch, through his estate manager, by two men from the Tameia quarter who guarantee each other. Rents are to be paid in Pauni at the threshing floor, and the land returned free of weeds; dated year 9 of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (AD 168).

In English machine translation

[Fragment A] To Patron, former gymnasiarch, son of Paulinus, former gymnasiarch, through […], manager (phrontistes), from […]tis son of Herodion […] and Moros son of Dio[…], from the Tameia quarter, each acting as surety for the other for payment. We wish to lease from you for six years from […] of Antoninus and Verus the lords Augusti, Armeniaci, Medici, Parthici Maximi, the […] arouras of cleruchic land belonging to you near the village of Tebtynis, called (the land) of Kategoros […] […] [… lines lost …] [Fragment B] and we will pay the rents each year in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor, new and clean, with the yearly […] being our responsibility […] the expediting of transport charges, while the measuring and conveyance of the rents will be your responsibility; and after the term we will hand over the arouras to you free of all couch-grass and rush, if you agree to lease. Patron […] Year 9 of Antoninus and Verus the lords Augusti, Armeniaci, Medici, Parthici Maximi […]

The Tameia quarter is a district of the nome capital Arsinoe. A phrontistes was the manager of a landowner's estate.

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.

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p.mil.vogl.6.273

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 168 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

[FrA] Πάτρωνι γεγυμνασιαρχηκότι υἱῷ Παυλίνου γεγυμνασιαρχηκότος διὰ[…]…ος φροντιστοῦ παρὰ[…]τεως Ἡρωδίωνος […]…ησεως καὶ Μώρου Διο[…]ἀπὸ ἀμφόδου Ταμείων, ἀλλήλων ἐγγύων εἰς ἔκτεισιν. βουλόμεθα μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ εἰς ἔτη ἓξ ἀπὸ […]Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Οὐήρου τῶν κυρίων Σεβαστῶν Ἀρμενια…