Fragment of a lease offer to Aurelia Charite TM 15557Hermopolisca. 314 (?)

Fragment of a lease offer addressed to the Hermopolite landowner Aurelia Charite by two or more men named Aurelius, proposing to rent land from her for a single year. Only the opening survives, written at Hermopolis around AD 314.

In English machine translation

Aurelia Charite was a wealthy female landowner of early 4th-century Hermopolis known from a small archive. The phrase 'of however many arouras it is' is a standard lease formula; an aroura is an Egyptian land measure of about 0.27 hectares.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment einer Pachtofferte). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.