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Lease of land at Senasi near Ibion Sesymbythis by two clergymen TM 19756Hermopolis

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Fragment of a two-year land lease from the Hermopolite nome, in which Victor, a presbyter, and a subdeacon (son of Maria), both farmers, lease a plot in the Senasi dike-basin near the village of Ibion Sesymbythis from the son of Silvanus and the heirs of another landowner. The rent includes 2 artabas of wheat, to be paid in Epeiph each year.

In English machine translation

† [† After the consulship of Flavius Basi]lius the most glorious, year thirteen, Epei[ph …] [… to …, most admir]able son of Silvanus, and to the heirs of […] [… of the Hermop]olites, from † Victor, the most pious presbyter, a[nd …] [… whose mot]her is Maria, subdeacon, both farmers originating [from …] [… (I/we acknowledge) willingly and of our own] free choice to have leased from you for a period of two years […] [… of the] coming fourth indiction, and of it, the […] belonging to you […] lying in the dike-basin of Senasi, at the irrigation machine […] [… under the supervision] of those from the village of Ibion Sesymbythis in the Hermo[polite nome …] [… plo]ts of the heirs of Ioannes son of Panouphios, on the north plo[ts …] […] of the most pious Herminos, on the east a road, on the west […] […] of the crops which we may choose, as rent for this […] […] 2 artabas of wheat, which rent […] [… I shall] measure out in the month of Epeiph each year […] […] my […] [… lost lines …]

The date is counted from the consulship of Flavius Basilius (AD 541), so year 13 falls around AD 554; the lease begins with the coming fourth indiction. The mechane is an irrigation machine (water-wheel) serving the land.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.

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