Lease of an orchard of the monastery of Zmin to two gardeners TM 18926Zmin (Panopolites)AD 562-64

After the consulship of Flavius Basilius, the most glorious, year 23, Pharmouthi 21 (?), of the 13th indiction. To the community of the most pious monks of the holy monastery of Zmin, through the most God-beloved Apa Ioannes, monk and superior of the same monastery, which owns property in the district across the river from Panopolis, from the Aurelii Senouthes, whose father is Nouthes and mother Stephanous, and Iulius son of Abraamios, whose mother is Tamine, gardeners (?), both from the said village of Zmin of the same Panopolite nome, greetings. We acknowledge, willingly and of our own choice, on mutual security and mutual guarantee, that we have leased from you, for as long a time as you wish, the entire orchard belonging to the holy monastery under you, lying to the west of the same village, called Psaiou […], with its entire cistern and olive trees and date palms and all rights of its whole enclosure and of the dwelling inside only, of moulded earth (?), on condition that we hold it under us for cultivation and for the planting of vegetables without interruption, with our own hands and animals and at our own expense, and that we give you at all times vegetables from all the various kinds of vegetables produced from it, and from whatever, if it happens, is sown in it […] [… lines lost …]