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Offer to lease two arouras of land from a soldier of the Mauri unit TM 16094Hermopolis

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Offer to lease 2 arouras of land for three years, made by Aurelius Pachymis, a villager of Temenkyrkis Poimenon in the Hermopolite nome, to Flavius Taurinus, a soldier of the unit of Mauri stationed at Lykonpolis. It dates from the consulship of Theodosius II (12th) and Valentinian III (2nd), AD 426, and breaks off where the land's earlier exchange is described.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our masters Theodosius for the 12th time and Valentinian for the 2nd time, the eternal Augusti. To Flavius Taurinus son of Plousammon, soldier of the unit of Mauri of Lykonpolis, from Aurelius Pachymis son of Onnophris, mother Martyria, from the village of Temenkyrkis Poimenon of the Hermopolite nome. I wish voluntarily and of my own free will to lease from you for a period of three years, reckoned from the crops of the auspiciously approaching eleventh indiction, the 2 arouras belonging to you in the tax-district (?) of the same village, in the holding of Pari, lying to the south of my own plots of 6 arouras which were exchanged [...] I exchanged our [...]

The consular date corresponds to AD 426, with the lease starting from the crops of the 11th indiction. The word praktoria probably refers to a tax-collection district of the village; its exact sense 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 Pachtangebot). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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bgu.12.2137

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Hermopolis

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