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Beginning of a one-year land lease from the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome. A man whose name ends in -mon, son of Makarios and Tsone, leases from Apollos son of Dioskoros a whole plot of farmland at a place called Tchatis for the sowing of the third indiction. It is dated 25 December 523.
The lessor Apollos is the father of the well-known Dioskoros of Aphrodito; his name here is restored. The phrase translated 'irrigated in its proper order' (kath' hydata en taxei) refers to land watered by the regular flood or irrigation system.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease. Land). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
† ὑπατείας Φλαυίου Μαξίμου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου Χοιὰκ κη τῆς δευτέρας ἰνδικτίονος. […]μων Μακαρίου μητρὸς Τσώνης ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ Ἀνταιοπολίτου νομοῦ Ἀπολλῶτι Διοσκόρου Ψιμανωβετʼ ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ μεμισθῶσθαι παρὰ σοῦ πρὸς ἐνιαύσιον χρόνον σπορᾶς γενήματος τ…
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