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Sublease of royal priestly land at Tebtynis TM 12439Tebtynis (Arsinoites)144 - 165

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Draft or offer of a sublease from Tebtynis, in which Kronion the younger, son of Pakebkis, asks a woman connected with the former gymnasiarch Paulinus, acting with her brother Ptollarion as guardian, to sublet to him about 4 arouras of royal priestly land she herself holds on lease, for six years. The terms alternate yearly between grain sowing for a rent in artabas and half grain, half fodder crops for a money rent.

In English machine translation

[To …] daughter (?) of Paulinus, former gymnasiarch, [with her guardian, her brother] Ptollarion, former gymnasiarch, [from Kronion the] younger, son of Pakebkis, from the village [of Tebtynis. I wish] to lease from you, from the […], [out of the land] which you too happen to hold [on lease around the village of] Tebtynis, of royal priestly land, [4 arouras] or however many there may be, for six years: [the first, third and] fifth year of the lease [for sowing] […], [at a rent], including the [seed] which I shall receive, […] 4 artabas […] in all [each year] […] artabas […] by your measure […]; [and the second, fourth and] sixth year, [one half for sowing whatever] I choose, [and the other half for sowing grass for cutting] for drying, [at a rent for the three-year period each year], without seed, [of …] silver [drachmas] […] […] […]

Much of the text, including the lessor's name and the area, is restored by the editor from parallel lease formulas. 'Royal priestly land' is a category of state-administered land formerly belonging to temples.

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 βασιλικὴ ἱερευτικὴ γῆ). 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.6.274

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 144 - 165 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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