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Offer to lease land from Charite daughter of Amazonios TM 15559HermopolisEnde 317 (?)

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Offer to lease farmland written by Aurelius Philoermos son of Serenos, a councillor of Hermopolis, to the landowner Charite daughter of Amazonios, acting through her husband, a gymnasiarch and councillor. He proposes to rent arouras from the kleros of Asklepiades for one year of the sixth indiction, half sown with wheat at 4 artabas per aroura and half with fodder at 3,000 drachmas per aroura, with rent due in Pauni and Epeiph.

In English machine translation

To Charite daughter of Amazonios, through her husband A[…], gymnasiarch, councillor of Hermopolis the [great …], from Aurelius Philoermos son of Serenos, councillor of [the same city]. I wish voluntarily and of my own free will to lease [from you] for the present year only of the fortunate [… of the] sixth indiction the [… arouras] belonging [to you near …] from the kleros of Asklepiades, [for] sowing with wheat and laying down fodder crops [in equal] halves, at a rent for the [half] in wheat of 4 artabas of wheat [for each] aroura, [and for the] other half in fodder of 3,000 drachmas [for each aroura], which rent, [when collected], I will pay and measure out to you [in the months Pauni] and Epeiph, the money of [good] quality and the wheat [new], clean, unadulterated, free of clods […] […] […]

Charite was a wealthy landowner of Hermopolis whose archive includes several such lease offers; a kleros was a land allotment named after an early holder.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Ende 317 (?) · Hermopolis

Χαρίτῃ Ἀμαζονίου διὰ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς Α[…] γυμνασιάρχου βουλευτοῦ Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως τῆς[…] παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Φιλοέρμου Σερήνου βουλευτοῦ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. βούλομαι ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐθαιρέτως μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ πρὸς μόνον τὸ ἐνεστὸς ἔτος τῆς εὐτυχοῦς[…] ἕκτης ἰνδικτίωνος τὰς ὑπαρχούσας σοι περὶ[……