Partnership agreement for cultivating sub-leased public land TM 19386Hermopolites4. Dez. 132

Titus Flavius Sarapion to Publius Aelius Apollonios, greetings. I acknowledge that I shall be your partner for a half share in the cultivation, for the present seventeenth year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, of the land which you leased from the state out of the unproductive (?) category in the Upper and Lower Peri Polin district, namely: from the kleros of Xenon near Tertembeuthis opposite the Sarapieion, 63 1/2 arouras, excluding 6 arouras which you have leased to others and with which I shall have nothing to do, so that the land held in common by me and you is, as stated above, 57 1/2 arouras; and near Temseu, from the kleros of Mikylos, 37 arouras; total together 94 1/2 arouras, […] which you leased from the state, on condition that I pay half of the rent charged or to be charged to you, I bearing equally with you all the expenses and seed and labour and all the other things without hindrance, for a half share. The partnership is valid. Year 17 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, month Hadrianos 8. I, Hermaios son of Didymos, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters, while the account remains in force for you concerning what I, Sarapion, owe you according to a handwritten contract, as it states. I, Hermaios son of Didymos, likewise wrote on his behalf this declaration too, since he does not know letters.