Offer to lease land
Uncial-cursive, written along the fibres. Aurelius Silvanus offers to lease a plot of land belonging to Aurelius Adelphius also called Dionysodorus.
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Offer to lease barley land at Selilais TM 17697Hermopolite NomeAD 314
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An offer to lease land, in which Aurelius Silvanus of the village of Selilais proposes to rent farmland called 'of the Well' from Aurelius Adelphios alias Dionysodoros for one year to sow barley, paying a fixed rent of 30 artabas of barley at harvest. It was written in AD 314 in the Hermopolite nome.
In English machine translation
In the consulship of Rufius Volusianus and Petronius Annianus, the most illustrious.
To Aurelius Adelphios also called Dionysodoros, and however you are styled,
from Aurelius Silvanus son of Ibois, his mother being Tanenteris, from the village of Selilais. I wish voluntarily to lease from you for the current 3rd indiction year only, from the arouras belonging to you at the same Selilais, called (those) of the Well, for sowing with barley,
at a fixed rent of thirty artabas of barley, which
I will measure out to you in the months of Pauni and Epeiph of the same
[3rd indiction] without delay, new, clean barley, unadulterated,
[free of clods], sieved, by the ⟦Athenian⟧ measure, the sixth-measure (?) of the estate […]
[…]
The scribe deleted 'Athenian' and substituted the estate's own measure; the end of the document is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtangebot). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
cpr.17A.4
ὑπατείας Ῥουφίου Οὐολουσιανοῦ καὶ Πετρωνίου Ἀννιανοῦ τῶν λαμπροτάτων Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀδελφίῳ τῷ καὶ Διονυσοδώρῳ καὶ ὡς χρηματίζεις παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Σιλβανοῦ Ἰβόιτος μητρὸς Τανεντήριος ἀπὸ κώμης Σελιλάεως. βούλομαι ἑκουσίως μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ πρὸς μόνον τὸ ἐνεστὸς ἔτος γ ἰνδικτίωνος ἀπὸ τῶ…