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Memorandum of the terms of a land lease, noting rents in wheat, silver and vegetable seed due over several years at the village of Taleitis, with the tenant free to sow whatever crops he wishes. It was jotted by a scribe of the village record office on the blank space of an apprenticeship contract from the Arsinoite nome in the early first century AD.
The records disagree on the date: AD 16-17 (?) against AD 13 for the apprenticeship contract on the same sheet. The text begins mid-sentence, so the opening terms of the memorandum are missing.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Apprenticeship to a Weaver and Memoranda for Other Contracts). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Subscription to an agreement by Orsenouphis to teach the slave girl Helene, who belongs to Herakleon, the art of weaving during an apprenticeship of two and one-half years; the space left blank above the subscription was later used for memoranda by a scribe of the grapheion (P.Mi…
σπερμάτων πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ϛ, τοῦ παντὸς πυροῦ ἀρτάβας οη, τιμῆς χλωρῶν ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς μ. τῷ β ἔτει λαχανοσπέρμου ἀρτάβας ιβ καθαρὰς ἐν Ταλεῖτι κώμῃ μέτρῳ τετραχοινίκῳ θησαυροῦ Λίκιος· καὶ τῷ γ ἔτει ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς μη καὶ λαχανοσπέρμου ἀρτάβας ιβ. σπερεῖ τὴν γὴν οἷς ἐὰν αἱρῆται γ…
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