Lease of unirrigated land at Aphrodite to Aurelius Apollos son of Abraamios TM 18428Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)20. Aug. 530

[recto] † χμγ 1 solidus less 1 carat, 4 artabas In the consulship of Flavii Orestes and Lampadius, the most glorious, Mesore 27 of the ninth indiction. To Apollos, the most esteemed protokometes of the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, son of Dioskoros of blessed memory, Aurelius Apollos son of Abraamios, mother Therakleia, living in the southern plain of the village of Tanyaithis in the Lesser Apollonopolite nome, greetings. I acknowledge, willingly and persuaded, that I have leased from your esteemed self for a period of six years, reckoned from the crops of the tenth indiction, which with God will be happy, both itself and the following time, the arouras belonging to it, however many they are, lying in the holding called Phenis in the plain of the same village of Aphrodite, called Psalek, of unirrigated land, for cultivation and for sowing whatever crops I wish, at a fixed rent, on condition that I cultivate and sow them and do all the agricultural work with my own animals and at my own expense, and deliver to your esteemed self as fixed rent for them, in a full or an unflooded year, which may not happen, each year from the crops of the same tenth indiction itself, for the same six years, 1 gold solidus less 1 carat, and 4 artabas of clean and rent-quality arakos; and in completion of the rents for past years up to the ninth indiction, 10 artabas of arakos and 2 carats of gold by the goldsmiths' standard, making together 1 gold solidus less 1 carat, and 2 carats, and 14 artabas of arakos, without dispute. The lease is valid and secure, and having been asked I have agreed. I, Aurelius Apollos son of Abraamios, the aforesaid, it is agreeable to me as aforesaid. I, Aurelius Enoch son of Jeremias, having been asked, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters. † Written by Victor, lawyer. [verso] […] of Apollos, landowner (?) […]