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Lease of dry unirrigated land at Aphrodite to a priest and his brother TM 19038Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)Jan. - Apr. 547

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Beginning of a land lease from Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, dated early 547. A priest and his brother lease dry, unirrigated land from the heirs of Apollos son of Dioskoros (represented by his son Dioskoros) and from Phoibammon, starting from the crops of the twelfth indiction.

In English machine translation

After the consulship of Flavius Basilius the all-renowned, year 7, […] 11, of the tenth indiction. † The following parties make this agreement of lease with one another: on the one part, the heirs of Apollos son of Dioskoros, through you the most admirable Dioskoros his son, and Phoibammon, son-in-law of Apollos (?), through their lessors (?) Apollos […]achos (?) and Phoibammon son of Plouch, both from the hamlet of Psinios of the southern plain of the village of Aphrodite; and on the other part […] the most pious priest, and […] his full brother ⟦through […]⟧, from the hamlet of […] of the same village, greetings. We acknowledge that we have voluntarily and of our own free will taken on lease from you the aforementioned lessors, for […] period, from the crops of the twelfth indiction, which with God will happily come, and of that year itself, the dry and unirrigated arouras belonging to you […] [… lines lost …]

The text calls the landowners' agents 'misthotai', normally 'lessees'; here it seems to mean the representatives through whom the owners lease out the land. The lessee clause and terms are lost after the first lines.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Location de terrain). 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 · Jan. - Apr. 547 · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαυίου Βασιλίου τοῦ πανευφήμου ἔτους ἑβδόμου, […] ια δεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος. † ταύτην τίθενται τὴν ὁμολογίαν τῆς μισθώσεως πρὸς ἀλλήλους, ἐκ μὲν τοῦ ἑνὸς μέρους κληρονόμοι Ἀπολλῶτος Διοσκόρου, διὰ σοῦ τοῦ θαυμασιωτάτου Διοσκόρου υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ Φοιβάμμωνος, γαμβρο…