Lease of five arouras of wheat land near Thosbis TM 16574Oxyrhynchos11. Okt. 250

Aurelius Sarapion also called Dionysotheon, former gymnasiarch, councillor of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, has leased to Aurelius Cornelius, son of Kollouthos, his mother being Tanesneus, from the hamlet of Pleros, for the present 2nd year only, the five arouras belonging to him near the village of Thosbis, previously cultivated by the same lessee, to be sown with wheat, at a fixed rent of 21 artabas of wheat, free from every risk, the public dues on the land being the responsibility of the landowner, who shall have control of the crops until he receives the wheat. This wheat, the lease being guaranteed, the lessee shall measure into the public granary at his own costs and all expenses, and shall deliver the receipt for it clear of all charges at the first measuring of the present year without delay, the right of execution lying against the lessee and against all his property. The lease is valid, and the lessee, having been asked the formal question, agreed. Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Gaius Messius Quintus Traianus Decius Pius Felix and of Quintus Herennius Etruscus Messius Decius and Gaius Valens Hostilianus Messius Quintus, the most venerable Caesars, Augusti, Phaophi 14.