The end of a land lease in which several lessees jointly rent plots from a woman for barley and wheat rents measured by survey, with delivery at the threshing floors in Pauni. It is dated 11 October 149, in the reign of Antoninus Pius.
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[...] [or however many] there may be, to be sown with barley, at a rent according to survey of 4 artabas of barley per aroura; and in the 4th plot (?)
the 1 1/4 arouras formerly called Zoilos' land, to be sown with barley,
at a rent likewise according to survey
of 6 artabas of barley per aroura, and as libation
for the lease 4 drachmas, all free from every
risk, the public charges on the land being the responsibility of
the lessor, who shall also have ownership of the
crops until she receives all the stated amounts.
The lease being guaranteed, let the lessees deliver
everything in the month of Pauni at the threshing floors, for the 5 1/2 1/4 arouras in the
holding, and for the rest at the threshing floor ... [...]
...tylos, all new, clean, unadulterated,
free of earth, sifted,
and the wheat free of barley, as measured for the public granary, the
rents of the 5 1/2 1/4 arouras by the sixth-measure
of Chysis, and all the rest by the four-choinix measure
of Sinkepha; and
the right of execution shall belong to the lessor
and her agents against the lessees, who are mutual sureties
for payment, and against all their
property, as if by legal judgment.
The lease is valid. Year 13 of Imperator
Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus
Antoninus Augustus Pius,
Phaophi 14.
The records give Hermopolis as the place but title the text a lease from the Oxyrhynchite nome; Chysis and Sinkepha are Oxyrhynchite villages. The 'libation' (spondē) is a small cash payment customary in leases.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtvertrag aus dem Oxyrhynchites). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.