Application for a sharecropping lease of land for flax near Antipera Pela TM 15919Oxyrhynchos317 - 318

To Aurelius Heron also called Sarapion, […], former gymnasiarch, former prytanis of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, from the Aurelii Dioskoros son of Ammonios and Leonidas son of Theon, both from the same city. We voluntarily undertake to lease, for the present 12th year and 10th year and 2nd year only, out of the land belonging to you near Antipera Pela in the allotment of Nikobios, out of 26 arouras, the 13 arouras lying fallow, for sowing with flax, on condition that in place of rent you the landowner have as a special reserve 1 aroura of flax; of the other 12 arouras you the same landowner have half of the flax produced from them, and we the lessees, in return for the cultivation we perform and the seed and all expenses we provide up to the time of the retting of the flax and the retting itself, have the remaining half share together with the seed produced, in full, all free of every risk, the […] of the land […] […]