Fragment of a lease offer to Aurelia Charite TM 15561Hermopolis

Fragment of a lease offer addressed to the landowner Aurelia Charite, daughter of Amazonios, of Hermopolis, by two villagers, Aurelius Kastor and another man son of Paulos, who wish to lease land from her. The terms are largely lost, but mention an indiction year, a plot of allotment land of some arouras, and possibly a deposit.

In English machine translation

Aurelia Charite was a wealthy 4th-century landowner at Hermopolis known from an archive of documents. The reading […]ersos may be chersos, uncultivated dry land, but this is uncertain.

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.