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Lease of a share of a vineyard by a vinedresser from Lebouso TM 16111Hermopolis27. Aug. 483

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A lease contract in which Aurelius Horos, a vinedresser from the hamlet of Lebouso near the village of Enseu, rents for one year a share of a vineyard belonging to the siblings Sarapodoros and Eucharisteia, children of the late Hermogenes of Hermopolis. It is dated 27 August 483 and comes from Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

[recto] 643 (?) † After the consulship of Flavius Trocundes, vir clarissimus, and of the one to be proclaimed, Epagomenal day 4, 7th indiction. To the Aurelii Sarapodoros and Eucharisteia, the most admirable full siblings born of the same parents, from Hermopolis, children of Hermogenes of most excellent memory, from Aurelius Horos son of Bekis, his mother being Chia, from the hamlet called Lebouso in the fields of the village of Enseu of the Hermopolite nome, vinedresser. I acknowledge that I have voluntarily and of my own free will leased from you for one single year, for the crops of the auspicious coming eighth indiction, the share belonging to you, which came to you from a written division made […] the joint share of a vineyard estate […] [verso] Lease of Horos son of Bekis from the hamlet called Lebouso of the Hermopolite nome.

The letters χμγ at the top are the Christian isopsephic symbol (often read as 'Christ born of Mary' or similar), with numerical value 643. The terms of the lease after the description of the property are lost.

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.12.2156

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 27. Aug. 483 · Hermopolis

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