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Lease of cleruchic land at Kerkesis with crop rotation TM 21433unbekannt165 - 166

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Fragment of an offer to lease a plot of cleruchic land near the village of Kerkesis for four years, alternating fodder crops (rent 140 silver drachmas a year, no seed supplied) with wheat (rent in kind, seed supplied). It dates to the sixth year of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, AD 165-166, in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[...] sixth [year of Antoninus a]nd Verus [the lords] Augusti, near [the villag]e of Kerkesis, of the kleros, [...] and a half arouras, or however many there may be, for the fir[st and t]hird year for sowing with hay (fodder) [at a rent] each year, without seed, of 140 silver [drachmas]; [and for the seco]nd and fourth year [for sowing with] wheat, at a rent for [the two-year period] each year, including the [...] artabas of wheat seed which I shall receive [...] [...]

The term kleros refers to an allotment of land originally granted to a settler. 'Aspermei' means the lessee received no seed from the lessor for the hay years.

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.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.mil.vogl.4.242

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 165 - 166

[… ? lines lost …] […] ἓκτου ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου καὶ Οὐήρου τῶν κυρίων Σεβαστῶν περὶ κώμην Κερκῆσιν κλήρου ἀρούρας […]ἥμισυ ἢ ὅσας ἐὰν ὦσι, τὸ μὲν πρῶτον καὶ τρίτον ἔτος εἰς σπορὰν χόρτου, φόρου κατʼ ἔτος ἀσπερμεὶ ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα · τὸ δὲ δεύτερον καὶ τέταρτον ἔτ…