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Offer to lease land for flax cultivation from Aurelia Eutropia TM 20895Oxyrhynchos7. Nov. 315

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An offer to lease land from Oxyrhynchus in which Aurelius Dioskoros undertakes to rent a share of about 6 3/8 arouras near the Isieion of Panga from Aurelia Eutropia, daughter of a former town councillor, for growing flax. Rent is half in silver (4 talents per aroura) and half in a share of the flax crop, with the lessee keeping the linseed; dated November 315.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our masters Constantine and Licinius Augusti for the 4th time […] To Aurelia Eutropia, daughter of Theodoros also called Chairemon, former gymnasiarch, former prytanis, former councillor of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, from Aurelius Dioskoros son of Ammonios, from the same city. I voluntarily undertake to lease for the current 10th and 8th year only, from the land belonging to you near the Isieion of Panga in the embanked area of Pekty in the place called Telke, of 17 arouras held in partnership with Panares, your share of one quarter and one eighth, that is 6 1/4 1/8 arouras by survey, for sowing with flax, and I will pay as rent for one half, for each aroura, 4 talents of silver, and in place of rent for the remaining half, one half share of the flax that will be produced, and I the lessee, in return for the seed I provide and the cultivation I carry out, shall have the remaining half share and the whole of the linseed, all free of every risk, the public dues on the land being your responsibility as landowner, you having control of the crops until you receive what is owed. If the undertaking is confirmed to me, I will of necessity pay the rents and the produce-rents, the money rent in the month of Pauni and the produce-rent of flax at the lake, tied in bundles (?), […] of the current year without delay, the right of execution lying with you against me as is proper. The undertaking is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. In the aforesaid consulship, Hathyr 1[…] I, Aurelia Eutropia, through me Ptol[…]: I have received a copy of this.

The 'current 10th and 8th year' refers to regnal years of Constantine and Licinius. The subscription records the landowner (through an agent) acknowledging receipt of a copy.

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.

p.oxy.45.3255

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 7. Nov. 315 · Oxyrhynchos

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