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Six-year lease of unirrigated land at Ptemenkyrkis from Flavius Taurinus TM 16126Hermopolis23. Sept. 501

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Lease contract in which two farmers from the village of Ptemenkyrkis, Dioskoros and Anouthios, jointly lease for six years 3 unirrigated arouras from Flavius Taurinus of Hermopolis, land he held jointly with his brother Sarapion. It was drawn up at Hermopolis on 23 September 501.

In English machine translation

[recto] † In the consulship of […] Pompeius the most glorious, Thoth 26, tenth indiction. To Flavius Taurinus, the most admirable, son of Ioannes of best memory, from the city of the Hermopolitans, from the Aurelii Dioskoros son of Iakybios, his mother being Thaesis, and Anouthios son of Ioannes, his mother being Maria, both farmers from the village of Ptemenkyrkis in the Hermopolite nome. We acknowledge, being mutual sureties and mutually responsible for each other, that we have voluntarily and of our own free will leased from your excellency for a period of six years, from the crops of the prosperous eleventh indiction, the 3 arouras belonging to it (?) out of 6 unirrigated arouras held in partnership with your brother Sarapion, the other 3 arouras lying in the plain of […] […] [verso] …

The lessees act as mutual sureties, each liable for the whole rent. The text breaks off before the rent and other terms, and the verso is illegible.

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.12.2174

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 23. Sept. 501 · Hermopolis

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