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Lease of 4 1/2 arouras near Hermopolis to Victor son of Ioannes TM 16101Hermopolis

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A lease contract from Hermopolis in which Victor son of Ioannes, a villager of the Hermopolite nome, leases 4 1/2 arouras of land from Flavius Ioannes, a member of the military staff of the Thebaid and son of a former officer of the Mauri unit at Hermopolis. The rent is payable in gold solidi, starting with the twelfth indiction; the document is dated by the consulship of Constantinus and Rufus (AD 457).

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Flavii Constantinus and Rufus, the most magnificent, […] Hathyr 7, 11th indiction. To Flavius Ioannes, enrolled in the military staff of the Thebaid, son of Taurinus of most excellent memory, former primicerius of the most devoted Mauri stationed at Hermopolis, from […] Victor son of Ioannes, mother Tamounis, from the village of […] in the Hermopolite nome. I acknowledge that of my own free will and voluntary wish and with an irrevocable and guileless intention I have leased from you for a period of […] years, from the crops of the fortunate twelfth indiction, the 4 1/2 arouras belonging to you in the eastern district of the city […] for sowing with whatever crops I choose, at a rent of […] in the first year, that of the twelfth indiction, gold solidi […] less 4 carats, and in the […]

The Mauri were a military unit stationed at Hermopolis; a primicerius was a senior officer. The length of the lease and the rent amounts are lost in gaps.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtvertrag). 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.12.2146

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

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