Lease [before 246 BC]
Fragment from a lease of a vineyard from the 10,000 aroura estate where Zenon is mentioned as lessor; there are indications that this was a new vineyard
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1792
Fragment of a lease of a new vineyard on the 10,000-aroura estate TM 1792Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)246 BCE
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
Fragment of a lease of a vineyard on the 10,000-aroura estate in the Fayum, with Zenon as lessor. The lessee must carry out digging, watering, pruning and other vineyard work over three years and pay rising money rents, with penalties for neglect or damage.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
[…]
[…] the 10,000 arouras […]
[…] adjoining (?) […]
[…] to Zenon […]
[…] by measurement in cubits […]
[…] let him pay back […]
[…] the first (?) […]
[…] and let him train up (the vines) […]
[…] to him stakes and bark […]
[…] of the vineyard
[…], and in the second year let him dig [and water and] make [the ground] clean and [carry out] the work [of the vineyard] […] all that the vines require […] [and in the] third year let him complete the cultivation […] pruning (?) and digging and the […] [and the] removal of shoots and all the other [vineyard work] at the proper seasons, and let him not [neglect these things. If] he does not complete them or does not pay […] let him [forfeit] for each year … 1 obol […] … for the same, one and a half times […]. And let him give Zenon [as rent] […] [in the first year] 196 drachmas 4 obols, and in the [second year …] drachmas […], [and in the third year] 246 drachmas 3 obols.
[…] Nikanor
[…]
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[column 2]
[…]
[…] vines […]
the height […]
satisfactorily […]
which are needed, other […] immediately the […] [If he] damages [the vineyard in any way, (let him pay)] double […]
[…]
[…]
[back]
To Zenon […]
The 10,000-aroura estate was the large gift estate of the finance minister Apollonios, managed by Zenon. One record dates the text to before 246 BC instead.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of a Lease of a New Vineyard). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.col.4.79
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