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Lease of a share of acacia, olive and date-palm plantations TM 16113Hermopolis485 (?)

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End of a lease from Hermopolis, probably of AD 485, in which Flavius Ion[…] son of Petros leases a third share of plantations of acacias, olives and date palms, paying 1,000 talents of silver per fruit-bearing female palm and a third of the olive crop, in partnership with the lessor's brother Sarapodoros. It closes with the lessee's subscription, three witnesses and the scribe Aphous.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] and the third share falling to you of the plants there, that is, acacias and olive groves and date palms, and thus to provide as rent for each female date palm bearing fruit from three (years?), flourishing, 1,000 talents of silver, and a third share of the fruit of the olive groves, in partnership with your brother Sarapodoros, for the completion of the same arouras and plants, toward his two-thirds share. The lease is valid and guaranteed, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. † I, Flavius Ion[…], son of Petros, the aforesaid, from Hermopolis, have leased as stated above. I, […] Ioannes son of Andreas, from Hermopolis, witness the lease, having heard it from the party making it. I, Aurelius Koll[…], […] of Hermopolis, witness the lease, having heard it from the party making it. I, Aurelius Dionysios son of Sarapion, from Hermopolis, witness the lease, having heard it from the party making it. † Written by me, Aphous. Lord, help! [verso] […] of the city of the Hermopolitans

The beginning of the contract is lost, so the lessor and the location of the land are unknown. The rent in silver talents reflects the heavily inflated late Roman money of account.

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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 485 (?) · Hermopolis

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