Six-year lease of a 40-aroura farm with vineyard at Temseu Skordon TM 18857Hermopolis4. Okt. 477

χμγ (Christ born of Mary?) [After the consulship of our master] Flavius Zeno and Harmatios, the most illustrious, Phaophi 7, indiction 1. […] to the most noble […] from Hermopolis the most splendid, from Aurelius Joseph […] from the village of Temseu Skordon of the Hermopolite nome, greetings. I acknowledge that I have [willingly and of my own choice leased] from you for a period of six years, from the crops of the fortunate [second indiction], the farm belonging to you of forty arouras, with a cistern and […] all equipment and a reservoir, lying in the plain of the [same village] […] at a fixed rent for it each year of 200 artabas of wheat, [which rent I will measure out to you in the month of] Epeiph each year, whether the land is irrigated or unirrigated, clean, [unadulterated, sieved, by the Athenian measure] on the threshing floors of the village. I will also provide a piglet [worth …] thousand [talents of silver] and 2 artabas of radish (seed?) and satisfactory cheeses […]. I have made for you 20,000 bricks and I will bake these for you […] the acacia trees that are on the aforementioned farm, and I am ready […] and for the apportioned tax 1 gold solidus, and [I am] ready […] to carry out for you, your nobility, the water supply of the vineyard estate and of our […] on condition that you, the landowner, receive half of all the [wine] flow that results […] and that I with the vinedresser receive the remaining half of the crop […] the vineyard, in winter twice a month, in summer every […] days […] to make the transport of your wine to the village and transport of wine […] from the common jar of the vintage, and I agree to everything as aforesaid. […] scribe, having been asked, I wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters […] and it was written through me […]