Sharecropping lease of unirrigated land called Tanares at Aphrodito TM 18179Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites, Ägypten)547 (?)

† To [...] son of Apollos son of Dioskoros, from the village of Aphrodite of the Antaiopolite nome, from the Aurelii Matheias son of Ponnis and Phibas son of Apollos, from the same village, greetings. We have leased from you, for the whole time that we shall cultivate it ourselves, in the estate (?) [...], from the crops of the eleventh indiction, your share of one third of the unirrigated arouras called Tanares, that is, the northern portion on the south of the place in our charge, on condition that we farm them with our own animals and water them from our own cistern and carry out all farming work without neglect, the seed being provided in equal shares; and when the season comes we shall have the produce of all kinds of crops and of chaff by halves. The lease (is valid), and having been asked (we have consented). I, Aurelius Matheias son of Ponnis, the aforesaid, agree as aforesaid. † Aurelius Phibas son of Apollos, the aforesaid, agrees with me as aforesaid, regarding the boundaries. † Through me, Kyros, lawyer.