Lease of farmland at Aphrodite by the priest Ioannes to Aurelius Besarion TM 19036Aphrodites kome (Antaiopolites)AD 525-540

[recto] [Chi-Mu]-Gamma In the consulship of Flavius [Justinus], the most glorious, […] fourth, of the fourth indiction. Ioannes, p[riest, son of] Ioannes of pious memory, through me [Senouthes] son of Apollos, to Aurelius Besarion son of Dioskoros, son of Ps[imanobet], both from the village of Aphrodite of the Antaiopolite nome. I have leased to you for a period of two years, reckoned from the crops, God willing, of the coming fifth indiction, the farmland belonging to me, of however many arouras it is, lying in the southern plain of the same village of Aphrodite, in the allotment of Nempkes, with cistern and building and all rights according to its boundaries, on condition that you carry out all the farming work on it at your own expense and with your own animals, and pay me the rent at a fixed rate, whether the land is fully flooded or unflooded (which may not happen), each year […] artabas of wheat by the rent measure of the most magnificent count [Ammonios] son of Theodosios, and one gold solidus less [… carats] by the goldsmiths' standard, and you will provide me with five cheeses and six short jars of lepsane, without dispute. The counter-lease is [valid and binding; and having been asked] I have agreed. Clearly you will also provide me […] [… lines lost …] [verso] Counter-lease of Ioannes son of Makarios, priest, through Senouthes son of Apollos, of farmland […]