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Lease of a one-third share of an estate at Aphrodite TM 19776Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)10. Sept. 536

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A one-year lease from Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, dated 10 September 536, in which a woman leases her third share of an estate to Aurelius Phoibammon son of Triadelphos, who already holds the other two-thirds. The lessor supplies the seed and the harvest is to be split in half; if the land is not flooded, the lessee must pay the public taxes instead.

In English machine translation

After the consulship of Flavius Belisarius, the most glorious, Thoth 13, of the 15th indiction. Aurelia Th[…]moe, daughter of Ponnis son of Pirion, […] Aurelius […] Apollos, from the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, to Aurelius Phoibammon son of Triadelphos, from the same village of Aphrodite, greetings. I have leased to you for the present year only, for the crops, God willing, of the coming first indiction, the third part belonging to me of the entire estate formerly called P[…] […] of […]ibis, with […] [… 1 line lost …] plants […] […] for the other two-thirds part, which was also bought by you from T[…] my brother, who also guarantees it, on condition that you work this yourself, the seed being provided by me; and if God floods all or part […] […], and when the season comes, the produce of all kinds of crops and chaff […] […] and […] shall be divided between us by half, to me for the rents, and to you for the rents; but if, which may it not happen, the […] be unwatered and no part be flooded, on condition that you, for the rent of the same estate, pay in full the public taxes both in grain and in gold […] freight charges […] [… 6 lines lost …]

The names of the lessor and the possible co-lessor Apollos are damaged, so the parties on the lessor's side are uncertain. The arrangement is a sharecropping lease with the produce divided equally between the parties.

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 (métagage)). 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 · 10. Sept. 536 · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαυίου Βελισαρίου τοῦ ἐνδοξοτάτου Θῶθ ιγ ιε ἰνδικτίονος. Αὐρηλία Θ[…]μόη Πόννιτος Πιρίωνος προ…[…]δ…[…]λ…ρ…α… Αὐρηλι…[…]… Ἀπολλὼς ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ Ἀνταιοπολίτου νομοῦ Αὐρηλίῳ Φοιβάμμωνι Τριαδέλφου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης Ἀφροδίτης χαίρειν. μεμίσθωκά σοι πρὸς…