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Offer to lease catoecic land at Philadelphia from Vibia Daphne TM 12562Philadelphia (Arsinoites)188 - 189

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An offer to lease land, in which Serapion son of Petronius proposes to rent 3 arouras of catoecic land near Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome from Vibia Daphne for four years at 18 artabas of wheat a year. She is to supply seed grain and pay the public dues, while he bears the farm work and transport charges. It dates to AD 188-189; the end is lost.

In English machine translation

To Vibia Daphne from Serapion son of Petronius. I wish to lease from you, out of your property near the village of Philadelphia, of a catoecic allotment, 3 arouras or however many there may be, for 4 years from the 29th year, at a rent each year of 18 artabas of wheat, by the eighth-measure of Basyllos, which she will receive at the threshing floor, Vibia supplying each year for seed 3 artabas of wheat, all the labours and the public transport charges being my responsibility as the lessee, and all the public dues being the responsibility of you, the landowner […] […]

Catoecic land was allotment land originally held by military settlers and later freely transferable. The 'eighth-measure of Basyllos' is a private grain measure named after its owner; the 29th year is presumably that of Commodus.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease of Land). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 188 - 189 · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

Οὐιβίᾳ Δάφνῃ παρὰ Σεραπίωνος Πετρωνίου. βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων σου περὶ κώμην Φιλαδέλφειαν κλήρου κατοικικοῦ ἀρούρας τρεῖς ἢ ὅσαι ἐὰν ὦσι ἐπὶ ἔτη τέσσερα ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνάτου καὶ εἰκοστοῦ ἔτους, ἐκφορίου κατʼ ἔτος πυροῦ ἀρταβῶν δέκα ὀκτώ , μέτρῳ ὀγδόου Βασύλλου…