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Offer to lease land for sowing hay at Tholthis TM 21267Oxyrhynchos24. Okt. 305

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Offer to lease a plot of land near the village of Tholthis in the Oxyrhynchite nome for one year, to be sown with hay, at a fixed rent in hay-seed. The landowner pays the public taxes and retains ownership of the crop until the rent is paid. Dated 24 October 305, at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

[…] […]ura and however he is styled. From […]tis(?), whose mother is Taonnophris, from the village of Tholthis in the eastern toparchy. I voluntarily [undertake to lease] for the current [14th and 2nd year only, from the] land belonging to you around the same [village, …] and a half [arouras] for sowing with hay, at a [fixed] rent [of hay …] of tall-growing (seed?), […] artabas, […] free of all risk, the [public dues of the land being] payable by you the landowner, who are master of the crops until you receive the rent. And if the undertaking is guaranteed to me […] […] [at the threshing floors of the same] village, hay-seed [clean of rushes and] weeds, satisfactory, by the [quarter-measure of you the] landowner, the right of execution being yours [against me as is proper.] The undertaking is valid, and having been asked the formal question [I consented.] […] Year 14 and year 2 of our lords [Constantius and Maxi]mianus Augusti and Severus and [Maximinus the most] illustrious Caesars, Phaophi 27. […] I have leased the [land] […] […] [as] stated above […]

The double regnal year (14th and 2nd) reflects the new tetrarchy of Constantius and Galerius (here Maximianus) with Caesars Severus and Maximinus, just after May 305. The document is an epidoche, a written offer to lease rather than a lease drawn up by both parties.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Affitto di terreno). 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 · 24. Okt. 305 · Oxyrhynchos

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