A one-year lease in which the illiterate farmer Aurelius Banos of Thynis rents from the noblewoman Aurelia Eucharistia of Hermopolis her third share of a 2-aroura plot, for a rent of 12 1/4 gold carats payable in Phaophi. It was drawn up at Hermopolis on 4 December 485.
In English machine translation
[recto]
In the year after the consulship of Flavius Theoderic, vir clarissimus, Choiak 8, 9th indiction.
To Aurelia Eucharistia daughter of Hermogenes, most noble, from the city of the Hermopolites, from Aurelius Banos son of Ioannes, his mother being Theodora, farmer from the village of Thynis in the Hermopolite nome.
I acknowledge that I have of my own free will and choice leased from you, for one year only, for the crops of the prosperous tenth indiction, the third share belonging to you of 2 arouras lying in the half-road (?) area in the plain of the same village; neighbours of the same 2 arouras: to the south a public road, to the north plots of Piarios son of Bekios, to the east plots of Ioannes […], to the west plots of the heirs of the physician; for sowing with whatever crops I choose, at a rent for the same third share of 12 1/4 carats of gold per year, which gold rent I shall pay you in the month of Phaophi each year without delay. The lease is valid and guaranteed, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent.
I, Aurelius Banos son of Ioannes, […] to the lease as stated above. I, Aurelius Phoibammon son of […]genes, having been asked, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters. I, Aurelius Ioannes son of Palladios, from Hermopolis, witness the lease, having heard it from the party who made it. I, Aurelius Victor son of Kollouthos, from Hermopolis, witness the lease, having heard it from the party who made it.
† Written through me, Phoibammon.
[verso]
Lease of Banos son of Ioannes, farmer from Thynis in the Hermopolite nome.
Dated by the post-consulate of Theoderic (consul 484). The carat (keration) was a fraction of the gold solidus (1/24).
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.