Application to Sublease Date Crop
Application addressed by Areios and Maron to unknown lessors, by which they request the right to sublease a date crop from them
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21370
Application to lease the date crop of the palm grove Ptaton TM 21370UnknownAugust 19, 185 A.D.
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
An offer to lease the date crop of a palm grove called Ptaton for the coming 26th year of Commodus at a rent of 100 silver drachmas, payable in two equal instalments in Phaophi and Hathyr. The applicants, Areios and Chairemon, are described physically and declared illiterate; the document is dated 19 August 185 (Mesore 26, year 25).
In English machine translation
[…]
from the metropolis […]. We wish to lease from you the produce on the trees of the date-palm grove called Ptaton, for the current 26th year of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord, at a rent of 100 silver drachmas, and we will make payment of the rent in the months of Phaophi and Hathyr in equal instalments, if it seems good to you to lease.
Areios, about 33 years old, with a scar on the right shin; Chairemon, about 35 years old, with a scar on the left shin; they were described, stating that they do not know letters.
Year 25 of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mesore 26.
Mesore 26 corresponds to 19 August, as in one record; the other gives 13 August. One record calls the second applicant Maron and the lease a sublease, but the text names Chairemon.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application to Lease Date Crop). 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.mich.12.631
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