Fragment of an offer to sublease land near Tebtynis, made by Kronion the elder, son of Pakebkis, to a woman acting with her brother as guardian, who herself held the land on lease. The lease was for six years from the third year of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (AD 162), with alternating crops, hay for cutting in the odd years.
In English machine translation
[…] with her guardian, her brother […]
[…] former gymnasiarch […]
[…] from Kronion, the elder, son of Pakebkis,
[of those from the village of Tebtynis.] I wish to lease
[from you for six years from] the present third year
[of Antoninus and Verus] the lords Augusti
[the … which you yourself happen to hold] on lease around the village
[of Tebtynis] […] four, or however many
[there may be, in the so-called Forty-aroura (plot)]; the
[first, third and fifth] year of the lease [for sowing of hay for cutting] for drying […]
[…] of the same aroura (?) […]
[…]
[…]
[…] of the three […]
[…]; and the second […]
[and fourth and sixth year for sowing] […] and […]
[…]
[… lines lost …]
The document is a sublease: the lessor herself held the land on lease. Much of the wording, including the six-year term and crop rotation, is restored by the editor; the catalogue notes the text survives in two copies.
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 in duplice copia). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.