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Offer to lease fodder land and a plot with a well at Hermopolis TM 17708HermopolisEnde 320

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An offer to lease land, addressed by Aurelius […]on son of Hermes to Aurelius Adelphios, gymnasiarch and councillor of Hermopolis. He proposes to rent the flooded part of a 7-aroura holding in the Oxopolos basin for two years to grow fodder, paying one third of the crop, and also a bare plot with a brick well for nine years for grazing animals. It was written at Hermopolis in late AD 320.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our masters Constantine Augustus for the 6th time and Constantine the most illustrious Caesar for the 1st time. To Aurelius Adelphios son of Adelphios, gymnasiarch, councillor of Hermopolis, from Aurelius […]on son of Hermes, from the same city. I wish voluntarily to lease from you for two years, from the new crops of the fortunate ninth indiction, the arouras belonging to you in the embanked basin of Oxopolos, that is, the flooded arouras out of 7 arouras, for the sowing of fodder each year, at a fixed rent of one third of the fodder crops that will be produced, which I shall deliver whenever you choose, in the fields; and also to lease for a period of nine years the bare plot to the west of your holdings, in which there is a well of baked brick, for the pasturing of animals […] my own needs, and […] In the month of Hathyr of the eighth indiction […] […]

A perichoma is an embanked basin of irrigable land. The end of the text, including the rent for the second plot, 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Ende 320 · Hermopolis

ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίνου Σεβαστοῦ τὸ ϛ καὶ Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος τὸ α. Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀδελφίῳ Ἀδελφίου γυμνασιάρχῳ βουλευτῇ Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως παρὰ Αὐρηλίου …ωνος Ἑρμοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. βούλομαι ἑκουσίως μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ ἐπʼ ἔτη δύο ἀπὸ νέων καρπῶν τῆ…