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An offer to lease addressed by Aurelius Patcheuis to the landowner Aurelia Charite, daughter of Amazonios, for an orchard called Porthmeion for one year at a rent of 3 talents of silver. A clause concerns the owner's share in irrigating the orchard; it was dated Phamenoth 12 and written for the illiterate lessee by Olympios, at Hermopolis.
The verb kykleuein probably refers to working the water wheel for irrigation; the clause seems to make the landowner responsible for half of it. The consular date was given in the lost opening lines.
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.
[… ? lines lost …] Αὐρηλίᾳ Χαρίτῃ Ἀμαζονίου καὶ ὡς χρηματίζεις παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Πατχεύιος …[…]βούλομαι ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐθαιρέτως μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ πωμάριον καλούμενον Πορθμεῖον ἐπʼ ἐνιαυτὸν ἑνὰ φόρου τοῦ πρὸς ἀλλήλους συμπεφωνημένου ἀργυρίου τάλαντα τρία γίνεται ἀργυρίου τάλαντα γ …
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