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Lease of a dry vineyard with half a cistern at Terton Kana TM 16115Hermopolis21. Sept. 488

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A lease in which Aurelius Victor son of Phoibammon, from the village of Terton Kana in the Hermopolite nome, takes on a three-year lease of one aroura of dry vineyard land with a half share of a cistern from Flavius Ioannes, a former primicerius of the Mauri unit stationed at Hermopolis. It was drawn up at Hermopolis on 21 September 488.

In English machine translation

[recto] After the consulship of Flavius Longinus, vir clarissimus, Thoth 24, 12th indiction. To Flavius Ioannes son of Taurinos, the venerable former primicerius of the unit of the most noble Mauri stationed at Hermopolis, from Aurelius Victor son of Phoibammon, his mother being Thaesis, from the village of Terton Kana in the Hermopolite nome. I acknowledge that I have willingly and of my own choice leased from your venerableness for a period of three years, from the crops of the fortunate coming thirteenth indiction, the 1 aroura of dry vineyard land belonging to you, together with a half share of the cistern there, lying in the plain of the same village, for irrigation by our […] […] [verso] Lease of Victor son of Phoibammon

'Chersampelos' denotes former or dry vineyard land, here leased with water from a shared cistern. The primicerius was a senior officer of the unit of Mauri (Moorish soldiers) garrisoned at Hermopolis.

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.12.2160

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 21. Sept. 488 · Hermopolis

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