Fragment of a land lease TM 21175unbekannt138 - 161

Fragment of a land lease from the reign of Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), mentioning arouras of land to be kept clear of weeds. It preserves part of a physical description of a party (a scar on the right shin) and a reference to the nomographos who drew up the document.

In English machine translation

The nomographos was the scribe and notary who drafted contracts in Roman Egypt; the 'free from rushes, reed, grass' clause is a standard formula of land leases.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Location de terre). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.