Lease of ten arouras near Mermertha TM 15404Oxyrhynchos18. Sept. 219

Aurelius Dioskourides also called Kastor, former gymnasiarch, councillor of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, has leased to Aurelius Sarapion son of Athenodoros grandson of Sarapion, from the same city, for four years from the present 3rd year, the ten arouras belonging to him and his partners near Mermertha, out of (the holding of) Metokos and Metokos, so as to sow and cut each year wheat and green fodder (?), half each, at a fixed rent each year of 27 artabas of wheat on deposit and 208 drachmas, all free from every risk, the annual public dues on the land being the responsibility of the landowners, who shall also have control of the crops until they receive what is owed each year. And if in the following years, which may it not happen, any land becomes unflooded, allowance shall be made to the lessee. And the lease being guaranteed, let the lessee pay the money rent in the month of Pauni, and let him necessarily measure the wheat into the public granary at his own expense, and let him hand over the deposit receipt for it, clear of all charges, to the lessor at the first measuring of each year without delay. The lease is valid. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, Thoth 20. (2nd hand) I, Aurelius Dioskourides, former gymnasiarch, and however I am styled, have leased as stated above.