p.mil.congr.xiv.pg72
Κλαυδίῳ Μενάνδρῳ βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ παρὰ Ἐξακῶντος Ἡρώδου ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. ἐπιδέχομαι μισθώσασθαι ἐπʼ ἔτη τέσσαρα βροχὰς τέσσαρας ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος δωδεκάτου ἔτους Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου τὰς […]νας ὑπο [… ? lines lost …]
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Offer to lease public land addressed to the royal scribe Claudius Menander TM 18111Oxyrhynchos108 - 109
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The opening of an offer by Exakon son of Herodes of Oxyrhynchus, addressed to the royal scribe Claudius Menander, to lease public land for four years beginning in the 12th year of Trajan. The rest of the document is lost.
In English machine translation
To Claudius Menander, royal scribe,
from Exakon son of Herodes, from the city of Oxyrhynchus. I undertake to lease for four years, four inundations, from the present twelfth year of Trajan the lord, the […] under […]
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"Four inundations" (brochai) reckons the lease term by the annual Nile floods, i.e. four agricultural years. Leasing offers of this kind to an official were the usual way of taking up state-owned land.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anfang eines Pachtvertrages über öffentliches Land). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.