Rental of land
Document relating to the rental of land. Three fragments. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19043
Lease of unirrigated land near Phthla to a shepherd of Aphrodite TM 19043Aphrodites kome (Antaiopolites)AD 525-26
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Opening of a three-year land lease in which Aurelius Victor, a shepherd of Aphrodite, leases unirrigated arouras near the village of Phthla from the councillor Flavius Panolbios. It dates to about AD 525-526 and comes from Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, part of the archive of Dioskoros.
In English machine translation
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To Flavius Panolbios, the most illustrious councillor of the Antaiopolite (nome), son of Ioannes of illustrious memory,
from Aurelius Victor son of Psaios, his mother being Tachymia, shepherd, from the village of Aphrodite in the same nome, greetings. I acknowledge that I have of my own free will and choice leased from your illustriousness for a period of three years, reckoned from the crops, God willing, of the coming fifth indiction inclusive, the arouras belonging to your illustriousness in the (place) called 'of Sarapammon', lying in the plain of the village of Phthla, being unirrigated land, on condition that I carry out all the farming work and pay the rent to your illustriousness […]
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The lease runs from the crops of a coming fifth indiction; the terms of rent are lost. The clause about farming work and rent is largely restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.masp.1.67113
[… ? lines lost …] ΦλαυίῳΠανολβίῳ τῷ λαμπροτάτῳ πολιτευομένῳ τῆς Ἀνταιοπολίτου, υἱοῦ τοῦ τῆς λαμπρᾶς μνήμης Ἰωάννου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Βίκτορος Ψαίου, μητρὸς Ταχυμίας, ποιμένος ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ,χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐθαιρέτως μεμισθῶσθαι παρὰ τῆς ὑμῶν λαμπρ…