Lease of land with an irrigation machine near Plelo TM 21363probably Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, EgyptSeptember 27, 412 A.D.

[recto] After the consulship of our masters Honorius for the 9th time and Theodosius for the 4th time, the eternal Augusti, Thoth 30. To the heirs of Phoibammon of illustrious memory, former dux, landowners in the city of the Oxyrhynchites, from Aurelius Elias son of Kollouthos, from the hamlet of Gnapheus of the same nome. I voluntarily undertake to lease, from the present year 89/58 until the sowing of the twelfth indiction, from the property belonging to you in the fields of the village of Plelo, of the plot called Paeianos, the […] irrigation machine fully equipped, of 30 1/2 1/4 arouras, so as to sow 15 arouras with wheat, at a fixed rent of 120 artabas of wheat, and 5 arouras with barley, the rent for these 40 artabas of barley, and 2 arouras with vegetables, the rent for these 6 1/2 artabas 4 choinikes of vegetable seed, and of the remaining 8 1/2 1/4 arouras in hay, you are to have 4 1/4 1/8 arouras in hay. The rent is to be free from every risk, the public charges being the responsibility of you the landowners, and I am obliged to deliver the rent by the receiving measure at the proper time without delay and to carry out the removal of the naubia (dyke-work). The lease is valid, and having been asked the formal question I consented. I, Aurelius Elias son of Kollouthos, have leased and will pay the rent as stated above. I, Aurelius […], wrote on his behalf because he does not know letters. […] [verso] Lease of a machine of the Phaeianos plot to Elias son of Kollouthos from Gnapheus. […]