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Offer to lease six arouras of wheat land from Flavius Didymus TM 19364Hermopolites373

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Beginning of an offer to lease land, in which Aurelius Sarapion son of Dorotheos asks to rent 6 arouras east of a dyke from Flavius Didymus, a former officer on the staff of the imperial private patrimony, for wheat at 7 artabas per aroura. It was written in AD 373 in the Hermopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] In the consulship of our masters Valentinian and Valens, the eternal Augusti, for the 4th time. To Flavius Didymus, former centurion (?) of the staff of the private patrimony, from Aurelius Sarapion son of Dorotheos, from the same city. I wish voluntarily and of my own free will to lease from you for a period of […] years, from the crops of the auspicious coming 3rd indiction, the 6 arouras belonging to you to the east of the dyke, for sowing with wheat in the present year, at a rent of 7 artabas of wheat for each aroura, [total 7 artabas of wheat] […] […] [verso] Lease of Sarapion, 6 (artabas?) […]

The abbreviated title of Didymus is read as 'former centurion'; the privatum patrimonium was the emperor's private estate administration. The remainder of the contract is lost.

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 · 373 · Hermopolites

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