A lease contract in which the illiterate farmer Aurelius Pebes son of Sois, of the village of Achilleus, rents about five arouras of land from the noblewoman Aurelia Kyra also called Eustorgia of Hermopolis for several years, paying a fixed rent in wheat each Epeiph. It was written probably in AD 514 at Hermopolis and signed by a scribe on his behalf and by witnesses.
In English machine translation
After the consulship of Flavii Clementinus and Probus, […]
To Aurelia Kyra also called Eustorgia, most noble daughter of Abraamios of illustrious memory, from the city of the Hermopolites, from Aurelius Pebes son of Sois, mother […], farmer from the village of Achilleus in the Hermopolite nome. I acknowledge that I have willingly and voluntarily leased from your nobility for a period of […] years, reckoned from the crops of the fortunate coming ninth indiction and itself, the five (?) arouras belonging to you […] lying in the plain of the same village of Achilleus, for sowing and planting […] at the fixed rent of […] artabas of wheat, which rent, new, clean and sieved, by the Athenian measure, I will pay and measure out to you […] in the month of Epeiph of each year without delay. I will also provide […] half an artaba of tender […], and I may not withdraw […]; but if I should dare to do this, you may […] […]. The lease is valid and secure, and having been asked I gave my assent. I, Aurelius Pebes son of Sois, have leased as stated above. I, Aurelius Pkylis son of Phoibammon, from Hermopolis, having been asked, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters.
I, Aurelius Aphous son of Phoibammon, from Hermopolis, witness the lease, having heard it from the party.
I, Aurelius Dioskourides son of Peretes, weigher, from Hermopolis, witness the lease, having heard it from the party.
[…] I witness the lease, having heard it from the party.
Written through me, […]bon, […]
The length of the lease, the amount of rent and the exact size of the plot are lost in gaps. The date derives from the post-consular formula of Clementinus and Probus (consuls of 513) and the ninth indiction.
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.