Lease of land near Thmoithothis belonging to Apollonous TM 15646Oxyrhynchos72 - 73

[recto] Theon son of Theon grandson of Theon, of the city of Oxyrhynchus, has leased to Iollas son of Pnepheros grandson of Iollas, of the village of Peretnouis in the Kynopolite nome, Persian of the Epigone, for two years, that is two inundations, starting from the present fifth year of Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, out of the 9 arouras belonging to his wife Apollonous daughter of Sarapion near Thmoithothis in the upper toparchy, 5 arouras from the northern part, so that in the present year he is to sow them with arakos for cutting as fodder (?), at a rent for each aroura of 2 1/4 artabas of wheat, and in the coming year to sow them with wheat, at a rent for each aroura of 7 artabas of wheat. The lessee shall also give Theon each year 1/4 1/8 artaba of loaves, the annual guarding of the water for the arouras being the responsibility of the lessee, and the annual rents being free of every risk. If any land is unflooded in the coming year, the rent for it shall be allowed to the lessee. If the lessee is made to pay anything to the treasury or for any other purpose on behalf of Theon or his wife or the land, let him deduct it from the rents. Theon shall have ownership of the annual crops until he receives the rents. The lease being guaranteed, let the lessee pay Theon the annual rents always in the month of Pauni on the threshing floor near the farmstead of Archibios, in wheat that is new, clean, unadulterated, […], by the four-choinix measure of Sarapion […] […] let him pay him for each […] […] [verso] Year 5. Lease of Apollonous to Iollas.