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Lease of mortgaged unirrigated land at Psemalynthis TM 17681Hermopolis14. Mai 510

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A lease in which the farmer Aurelius David of Psemalynthis rents 7 arouras of unirrigated land from the noblewoman Aurelia Kyra, who holds the land as security on a mortgage from Archontia. He promises a yearly rent of 30 artabas of wheat and 6 of barley, payable at harvest in Epeiph. Written at Hermopolis on 14 May 510.

In English machine translation

[recto] † After the consulship of Flavius Opportunus, vir clarissimus, Pachon 19, fourth indiction. To Aurelia Kyra also called Eust[…]ia, the most noble daughter of Abraamios of learned memory, from the city of the Hermopolitans, from Aurelius David son of Paesios, mother Tapia, farmer from the village of Pselamynthis in the Hermopolite nome. I acknowledge that I have voluntarily and of my own free will leased from your nobility, for as long a time as you hold the mortgage made to your nobility by Archontia […] from the same city, starting from the crops now in the fields of the prosperous fourth indiction, the 7 arouras of unirrigated land mortgaged to your nobility by the same most noble Archontia, lying in the plain of the same village, for sowing and planting with whatever crops I choose, at a fixed annual rent for them of 30 artabas of wheat and 6 artabas of barley, which rent, new, clean and sieved, I will pay and measure out by the Athenian measure in the month of Epeiph at the season of harvest each year without delay. The lease is valid and binding, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius David son of Paesios, from Hermopolis, have leased as stated above. I, Aurelius Theon son of Papnouthios, from Hermopolis, having been asked, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters. I, Aurelius Ammonios son of Gerontios, from Hermopolis, witness the lease, having heard it from the party who made it. I, Aurelius Horos son of Pet[…], witness the lease, having heard it from the party who made it. I, Aurelius Isakos son of […]tos, witness the lease, having heard it from the party who made it. Written through me, Poution (?) […] [verso] Lease of David […] † […] [… 1 line lost …]

The lease lasts only as long as the lessor holds the mortgage, so she is leasing out land pledged to her as security. The Athenian measure was a standard artaba measure used in Late Antique contracts.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtvertrag über Ackerland). 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 · 14. Mai 510 · Hermopolis

[r] † μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαυίου Ὀπορτούνου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου Παχὼν ιθ, τετάρτης ἰνδικτίονος. Αὐρηλίᾳ Κύρᾳ τῇ καὶ Εὐστ[…]…ίᾳ τῇ εὐγενεστάτῃ θυγατρὶ τοῦ τῆς λογίας μνήμης Ἀβρααμίου ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑρμουπολιτῶν παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Δαυεὶτ Παησίου μητρὸς Ταπίας γεωργοῦ ἀπὸ κώμης Ψελαμύνθεως τοῦ Ἑρμου…