One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20550
Offer to lease royal land near Nesla TM 20550Oxyrhynchos44 - 45
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An offer addressed to Galation, royal scribe, by Theogenes son of Theogenes to take over the cultivation of 40 arouras of royal land near Nesla in the upper toparchy, previously farmed by the sons of Theon, promising higher payments in wheat to the state. It dates to the fifth year of Claudius (AD 44-45) at Oxyrhynchus.
In English machine translation
To Galation, royal scribe,
from Theogenes son of Theogenes. Wishing to bring in more for the public revenues, I undertake, if it is granted to me, from the present fifth year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, the cultivation of the land farmed by the sons of Theon son of Panechotes near Nesla in the upper toparchy, in the place called Hermes, 40 arouras of royal land, paying instead of what was previously paid for these as the price of green crops in solid kinds (?), for 20 arouras 5 artabas of wheat for each aroura, and for the other 20 arouras in […]
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This is a tender (an offer to take on state land at a higher rent) rather than a finished lease; 'green crops' refers to fodder crops whose value had been paid in money and is now to be converted to wheat. The end of the text is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease of Domain 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.
p.oxy.2.279
Γαλατίωνι βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ παρὰ Θεογένους τοῦ Θεογένους. βουλόμενος πλεῖον περιποιῆσαι τοῖς δημοσίοις, ἐπιδέχομαι συνχωρηθείσης μοι ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος πέμπτου ἔτους Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος τῆς γεωργίας τῶν γεωργουμένων ὑπὸ υἱῶν Θέωνος Πανεχώτο…