Offer to lease cleruchic land near Theogonis for four years TM 12446Tebtynis (Arsinoites)25. Aug. 155

To Pasigenes son of Sabinus also called Ninnos, kosmetes, from Paopis and Orsis, both sons of Kronion son of Orsenouphis, from Tebtynis. We wish to lease from you for four years from the coming nineteenth year, near the village of Theogonis, 13 arouras of cleruchic land, or however many there may be, in 2 parcels (sphragides): in the 1st and 3rd years, 5 arouras to be sown with wheat, and the remaining 8 arouras with grass for grazing sheep, at a rent for the two-year period, each year, including the 5 artabas of seed wheat which we shall receive, of 60 artabas of wheat in all, and a money rent of 160 drachmas; and in the 2nd and 4th years, 8 arouras to be sown with wheat, and the remaining 5 arouras with grass for cutting, at a rent, including the 8 artabas of seed wheat which we shall receive, of 96 artabas of wheat in all each year, and a money rent of 100 drachmas, and as a customary gift for the four-year period, each year, 1 cock worth 4 drachmas, all measured by your own six-choinix measure, free of deductions and risk, the public transport charges being our responsibility, and the conveyance of the rents being to you. And after the period we shall hand back the arouras clean of dog's-tooth grass and every weed except rush and reed. Year 18 of Antoninus, 2nd of the epagomenal days.