A four-year lease of 25 arouras of farmland east of Hermopolis, with a share of a cistern, taken by the farmer Aurelius Viktor from Flavius Taurinus, a clerk of the military office of the Thebaid. The rent is paid in wheat, beans, arakos and lentils; the end of the contract is lost. Dated 13 December 494.
In English machine translation
† After the consulship of Flavius Eusebius, the most illustrious, for the 2nd time, Choiak 17, 3rd indiction.
To Flavius Taurinus son of Ioannes, the respected scriniarius of the military office in the Thebaid, from the city of the Hermopolites, from Aurelius Viktor son of Apalix (?), his mother being Kyra, farmer from the same city. I acknowledge that I have willingly and of my own choice leased from your excellence for a period of four years, from the crops of the prosperous fourth indiction, the 25 arouras belonging to you, together with the share of the cistern there that falls to them, out of a holding of 31 arouras held in partnership with […]xia and Theodora and Theodosia, children of Phoibammon your paternal uncle, who have the remaining 6 arouras making up the total of the same holding, which lies in the east of the same city, for sowing and storing whatever crops I choose, at a rent for the same 25 arouras of 100 artabas of wheat and […] artabas of phaselus beans […] and 32 1/2 artabas of arakos and 5 artabas of lentils.
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A scriniarius was a clerk or record-keeper in an official bureau. Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a kind of vetch or chickling) with no exact English equivalent.
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.