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Lease of land near Sko belonging to the wife of Sarapion TM 16566Oxyrhynchos118 - 119

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A two-year lease of farmland near Sko in the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Oxyrhynchus in AD 118-119. Sarapion leases to a 'Persian of the epigone' plots belonging to his wife Ammonous, daughter of Pausiris, setting crops and rents in wheat for each year.

In English machine translation

Sarapion […], from the city of Oxyrhynchus, has leased to T[…], son of […], from the same city of Oxyrhynchus, Persian of the epigone, for two years from the present third year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, out of the plots belonging to his wife Ammonous daughter of Pausiris near Sko: from the (holding) of Antigonos 9 1/2 arouras, so as in the first year to cultivate them as 'wood-cutting' (fallow-clearing) with arakos, at a rent per aroura of 2 artabas of wheat, and in the second year to sow them with wheat, at a rent per aroura of 10 artabas of wheat; and from the (holding) of Theodoros and Aulaios 1 aroura out of jointly owned plots, so as in the first year to sow it with wheat, at a rent for it of […] artabas of wheat […] […]

The verb xylamesai refers to a crop rotation in which land is sown with a fodder crop (here arakos, a vetch-like legume) at a low rent before wheat; it has no exact English equivalent. 'Persian of the epigone' is a legal status label common in contracts of this period.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease of Land). 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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p.oxy.36.2776

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 118 - 119 · Oxyrhynchos

ἐμίσθωσεν Σαραπίων[…]ἀπὸ τῆς Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως Τ[…] του[…]…[…]… ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως Πέρσῃ τῆς ἐπιγονῆς εἰς ἔτη δύο ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος τρίτου ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ἀπὸ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων τῇ γυναικὶ αὐτοῦ Ἀμμωνοῦτι Παυσίριος ἐδαφῶν περὶ Σκώ, ἐκ μὲν τοῦ Ἀντιγόνου ἀ…