One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 17614

End of an application for a lease, probably of farmland TM 17614Alexandria83 - 96

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Fragmentary end of an application for a contract, probably a lease of farmland, with clauses on the tenant's diligence, penalties of double payment, damages, a fine and liability to arrest, and execution as if by court judgment. It is dated to the reign of Domitian (AD 83-96) and was registered through the record office of Kerkesoucha in the Fayum.

In English machine translation

[… ? lines lost …] […] … […] … […] more frequently (?) towards the Arei[…] […] … for the … […] let him show diligence, and if any […] […] hollows out (?) of the aforesaid to be […] […] himself liable to immediate arrest until […] the aforesaid, and if he does not pay the […] […] … double, and the damages and expenses and a fine of […] drachmas of silver […] [the right of execution being] as if by a court judgment. We request it. [Year …] of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, Phaophi … Through the record office of Kerkesoucha.

The records give Alexandria, but the registration through the record office of Kerkesoucha points to a village in the Arsinoite nome (Fayum); Alexandria may reflect where the papyrus was acquired. Identification as a lease is tentative.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Μίσθωσις ἀγροτικοῦ ἀκινήτου (;)). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 83 - 96 · Alexandria

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