A two-year lease in which Panechotes son of Agathon rents from a woman landowner, acting through a guardian or agent, two plots near the village of Pimpasi, paying money rent for green fodder crops and wheat rent for grain sowing. It is dated to year 8 of Septimius Severus (AD 199/200), and a scribe signs for the illiterate lessee.
In English machine translation
[To …]dora also called Si[…], [through] […]odoros also called […], guardian (?), from Panechotes son of Agathon, [mother] […]eus, from E…, [residing] in the hamlet of Ko…leu. I acknowledge that I have leased from you for a period of two years from the present 8th year, from the property belonging to you near the village of Pimpasi, from the […] holding, 5 1/2 arouras previously farmed by Pekysis son of Eudaimon, in the 8th year for green crops to be cut for fodder (?), at 24 drachmas for each aroura, and in the coming 9th year for sowing wheat, at 6 1/2 artabas of wheat for each aroura; and in the same holding 4 arouras, of whatever the survey shows, for sowing wheat, at 5 1/2 artabas of wheat for each aroura, and in the 9th year for green crops to be cut (?), at 20 drachmas for each aroura. The total money rent and grain rent I will pay to you, the wheat at the public granary and the money in good coin, in the month of Pauni, the rents being free of all risk, you having the right of execution upon me and upon all my property; the annual public dues on the land being the responsibility of the landowner, from whom the lessee leased the crops, so that she may receive what is owed each year. If any land becomes unflooded, allowance will be made to the lessee. The lessor guaranteeing [the lease] … and I will hand over the land clean of rushes (?) …
The lease is valid. Year 8 of the Emperors [Caesars] Lucius Septimius Severus [Pius] Pertinax Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus Maximus […] 22.
I, Panechotes the aforementioned, have leased [as stated above]. I, Pareitis son of Kollouthos, wrote on his behalf because he does not know letters.
The rents alternate between cash rents for green crops cut for fodder and wheat rents in kind for sown land. Some phrases near the end are damaged and their sense is uncertain.
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.