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Lease of arable land in the Akanthon allotment at Aphrodite TM 19345Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)9. Dez. 536

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Lease of farmland in which Aurelius Ioannes, a farmer of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, rents from the landowner Aurelius Apollos son of Dioskoros arouras in the southern plain of the village, in the Akanthon allotment, for as long as the owner wishes, starting with the crops of the coming first indiction. It was written on 9 December 536; the rest of the terms are lost.

In English machine translation

[recto] 643 (?) † After the consulship of Flavius Belisarius, the most glorious, Choiak 13, of the fifteenth indiction. To Aurelius Apollos son of Dioskoros, son of Psimanobet, taxpayer from the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, from Aurelius Ioannes son of Dorotheos, son of Psaios, son of Hortabanes (?), farmer from the same village, who writes slowly in his own letters. I acknowledge that I have willingly and of my own choice leased from you, for as long a time as you wish, reckoned from the crops, with God's help, of the coming first indiction, both that year and the following time, the arouras belonging to you, situated in the southern plain of the same village, in the allotment of Akanthon, with every right according to the boundaries, on condition that I cultivate them and the whole […] […] [verso] Lease […] of Dioskoros

The opening χμγ is a Christian cryptogram, usually read as 643, often interpreted as a numerical symbol for a Christian phrase. Apollos is the father of the well-known Dioskoros of Aphrodite; the lease is 'at will', a common late antique tenancy form.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Affitto di terreno). 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 · 9. Dez. 536 · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

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