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.