Offer by a soldier to lease fifteen arouras from Aurelia Charite TM 15563HermoupolisAD 347

To Aurelia Charite, daughter of Amazonios, former magistrate and councillor of Hermopolis the most splendid city, from Flavius Cassius, promotus of the vexillation of Moorish scutarii stationed under the praepositus Almisianus in the same Hermopolis. I wish voluntarily and of my own free choice to lease from you for the current year only, for the crops of the fortunate 7th new, that is the 22nd, indiction, the fifteen arouras belonging to you in the dike-basin of Magdola Mire, from the holding (named) after them, for sowing and planting with whatever crops I choose, at a fixed rent of 30 artabas of wheat, which rent I shall measure out in the month of Epeiph of the same 7th indiction without delay, in new, clean wheat, unadulterated, free of earth and barley, sieved, by the Athenian measure, with your agent cleaning and measuring it at the threshing floors of the metropolis, all public dues, assessments, annonae and surcharges being the responsibility of you, the landowner. The lease is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. In the consulship of Vulcacius Rufinus, the most illustrious prefect of the sacred praetorium, and Flavius Eusebius, the most illustrious, Phaophi 24. (2nd hand?) I, Flavius Cassius, have leased as stated above.