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Fragment of an offer to lease land addressed to the landowner Aurelia Charite, daughter of Amazonios, acting through her husband, by Aurelius Dioskoros also called Ammonios, a councillor of Hermopolis. He proposes to lease 5 of her 20 arouras near Nache for one year, to grow fodder and wheat on a half-share basis. Hermopolis, about AD 312-322.
Aurelia Charite was a wealthy female landowner of Hermopolis whose archive includes several such lease offers. 'By halves' indicates a sharecropping arrangement in which produce was divided between owner and tenant.
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.
Αὐρηλίᾳ ΧαρίτῃἈμαζονίου διὰ τοῦ ἀνδρός σου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Διοσκόρου τοῦ καὶ Ἀμμωνίου […]γυμνασιάρχου βουλευτοῦ Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως. βούλομαι ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐθαιρέτως μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ πρὸς μόνον τὸ ἐνεστὸς ἔτος […]τῆς[…] ἰνδικτίωνος τὰς ὑπαρχούσας σοι ἀπὸ[…] ἀρουρῶν κ περὶ Νάχη ἐκ τοῦ …
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