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Offer to lease a third share of private land near Psobthon TM 16104Hermopolis30. Aug. - 31. Dez. 375

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An offer to lease land, in which Aurelius Peus son of Stephanos of a village in the Hermopolite nome proposes to rent a one-third share of private land from Aurelius Kyros son of Isidoros of Hermopolis for one year. The rent is 18 artabas of wheat payable in Epeiph, with the landowner responsible for the public taxes. It was written at Hermopolis in late AD 375.

In English machine translation

[recto] In the 3rd consulship of our master Gratian the eternal Augustus and of Flavius Equitius, vir clarissimus. To Aurelius Kyros son of Isidoros […] from Hermopolis the most splendid […] from Aurelius Peus son of Stephanos, from the village of Psobthon Chenarsieseos (?) of the same Hermopolite nome. I wish voluntarily and of my own free will to lease from you, for the crop of the coming fifth indiction only, the third share of private land belonging to you near the same village, […] whichever (crops) I choose, at a fixed rent agreed between us of 18 artabas of wheat, which grain rent, new and clean, I will pay and measure out to you in the month of Epeiph of the same fifth indiction, by the measure by which Amphion's (grain) is also measured, at the threshing floors of the same village, without delay, the public taxes being your responsibility […] [verso] …

The 'fifth indiction' is a fiscal year of the 15-year tax cycle, here 376/377. The village name is partly restored.

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.12.2148

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 30. Aug. - 31. Dez. 375 · Hermopolis

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