A four-year lease of 5 arouras of land near Tychis Nekotis, let by Dionysios son of Dionysios to Dionysios son of Harpokration, both of Oxyrhynchus, from Domitian's 8th year. The tenant may grow any crop but woad for three years, then half wheat and half arakos in the final year, paying a fixed rent of 17 artabas of wheat a year.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Dionysios son of Dionysios, grandson of Pausirion, of the city of Oxyrhynchus, has leased to Dionysios son of Harpokration, grandson of Sarapion, of the same city, a Persian of the Epigone, for four years, four inundations, from the present eighth year of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, the 5 arouras belonging to him near Tychis Nekotis, from the middle embankment and from the former gift-estate of Artemidoros, out of jointly held arouras, on condition that for the first three years he sow them each year and cultivate them with whatever crops he chooses, except woad, and in the last year sow half with wheat and plant the other half with arakos, of which half is for ploughing in and the other half for cutting, at a fixed rent of 17 artabas of wheat each year, free from all risk, the fixed amount being free of every risk, the [...] accepting for the lessee the coming [...] as quickly as possible [...]
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[verso]
Lease of Dionysios, 5 arouras near [Tychis Nekotis].
A 'Persian of the Epigone' was a legal status designation, here marking the lessee, often used in loans and leases. Arakos is a leguminous fodder or green-manure crop, part of which was ploughed back into the soil.
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 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.