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Lease of grain land from a woman to joint lessees TM 20108Hermopolis11. Okt. 149

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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.

In English machine translation

[... lines lost ...] [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] [...] to them ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] [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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 11. Okt. 149 · Hermopolis

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