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Lease of a share of the holding of Psineios at Aphrodite TM 18939Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)544 - 545 (?)

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Fragment of a lease in which the farmer Aurelius Enoch son of Psaios acknowledges leasing for two years a share of the holding of Psineios, with cisterns, plants and date palms, from a village headman, son of Dioskoros, at Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome. The lease was to begin with the crops of the ninth indiction, around AD 544-545.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] to […], protokometes, son of Dioskoros of blessed memory, [son of] Psimanobet, from the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, from Aurelius Enoch son of Psaios, his mother being Rachel, farmer, from the plain of the same village, greetings. I acknowledge that I have voluntarily and of my own free will leased from you, for a period of two years reckoned from the crops of the coming, God willing, ninth indiction inclusive, the entire share inherited from your mother, which belongs to you, of the holding (kleros) of Psineios, together with the entire share of the two cisterns (?) […] and plants and date palms [… lines lost …]

The lessor, son of Dioskoros and grandson of Psimanobet, is probably Apollos, father of the poet and notary Dioskoros of Aphrodite; his name is lost. A protokometes was a village headman; lakkoi may be cisterns or water basins.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragments d’un contrat). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 544 - 545 (?) · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

[… ? lines lost …] πρωτοκωμήτῃ, υἱῷ τοῦ τῆς μακαρίας μνήμης ΔιοσκόρουΨιμανωβετ, ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ Ἀνταιοπολίτου νομοῦ, παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἐνὼχ Ψαΐου, μητρὸς Ῥαχήλ, γεωργοῦ, ἀπὸ τῆς πεδιάδος τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης, χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐθαιρέτως μεμισθῶσθαι παρʼ ὑμῶν, πρὸς διε…