An offer to lease 34 arouras of partly stony land in the Pekty embankment district, owned by the Alexandrian noblewoman Aurelia Herakleidiaina, for one year at a rent of 2 talents 5,000 drachmas payable in three instalments. The lessee's name is lost. Written at Oxyrhynchus in 289/290 AD, with the landowner's acknowledgement of receiving a copy.
In English machine translation
To Aurelia Herakleidiaina, matrona stolata, daughter of Aurelius Herakleides, former councillor of the most glorious city of the Alexandrians, from […]
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[…] I voluntarily undertake to lease for the current 6th and 5th year only, from the land belonging to you in the embanked area of Pekty of this nome, in the holding called that of Psenerous, 34 arouras or however many there may be, among which are stony places, at a fixed rent of 2 talents and 5,000 drachmas of silver, free of all risk, the public dues on the land being your responsibility as landowner, you having control of the crops until you receive what is owed. If my undertaking is confirmed, I shall pay the rent in three months, on the fifteenth of each month: in the month of Tybi 1 talent of silver, in the following month Mecheir another 1 talent, and in Pharmouthi the remaining 5,000 drachmas of the rent, without delay, the right of execution belonging to you against me and against all my property. The undertaking is valid, and having been asked by you I agreed.
Year 6 of Imperator Caesar Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus and year 5 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus, Germanici Maximi, Pii, Felices, Augusti, […]
I, Aurelia Herakleidiaina, have received a copy of this.
Matrona stolata was an honorific Roman title for a woman of high rank. The year 6 of Diocletian and 5 of Maximian correspond to the single agricultural year 289/290.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Undertaking to Lease Land). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.