Lease of a water-wheel and 21 arouras at the estate of Pakerke TM 19366Oxyrhynchos20. Mai 489

[recto] After the consulship of Flavius Longinus, vir clarissimus, Pachon 25, indiction 12, in the city of the Oxyrhynchites. To Flavius Strategios, vir clarissimus and councillor of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, son of the most magnificent former consul Apion, landowner in the same city, through Theodoros his deputy, from Ioannes, [deacon] of the holy church, son of Aneous, mother Apia, and Aurelius Phoibammon, headman, [son of …], mother Peieous, from the estate of Pakerke in the Oxyrhynchite nome, greetings. We voluntarily undertake to lease, on mutual security, from the present year 165 (and) 134, for the gathering of the crops of the thirteenth indiction, from the property belonging to your Excellency and that came to it by right of a quarter share of Serenos of illustrious memory, former councillor […] of the same (city) of the Oxyrhynchites, by order of the all-[…] most great and magnificent […], lying in the fields of the same estate, a complete water-wheel called […], equipped with all its wooden fittings and iron parts, together with the adjoining [complete cistern and] […] and the 21 arouras cultivated with it, [or however many they may be, for sowing with whatever] crops we choose; and we shall pay as [fixed] rent, [both in flooded] and unflooded conditions, each year, in wheat by the cancellus measure, […] artabas […] the rent being free of all risk, the public dues on the land [being the responsibility of] […] [… lines lost …] [verso] […] of Flavius Ioannes […]