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Five-year lease of one aroura of unirrigated land at Achilleus TM 21668Hermopolites23. Okt. 577

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Lease contract in which Aurelius Konstantinos son of Viktor, of the village of Achilleus in the Hermopolite nome, rents for five years one aroura of unirrigated arable land from the son of the late Ioannes. The land is part of three arouras held in partnership with the noblewoman Euphrantia; the document dates to October 577.

In English machine translation

† In the 12th year of the reign and consulship of our most divine master Flavius Justinus, eternal Augustus and Imperator, Phaophi 26, of the 11th indiction. To […] the most admirable son of Ioannes of blessed memory, […] from Aurelius Konstantinos son of Viktor, who writes slowly, […] from the village of Achilleus in the Hermopolite nome. I acknowledge that I have willingly and of my own choice leased from you for a period of five years, reckoned from the crops now in the fields of the 12th indiction, which with God is beginning, and including it, the 1 aroura of unirrigated arable land belonging to you, out of 3 arouras of unirrigated arable land held in partnership with the most noble Euphrantia […] of the […] 2 arouras, to make up the same 3 arouras, lying in the […] called Piom n-ho[…] (?), under the watch of the guards of the same village of Achilleus in the same nome, whose neighbours are: to the south […], to the north an embankment, to the east plots of the heirs […], to the west […] […]

The field name is written in Coptic (ⲡⲓⲟⲙ ⲛϩⲟ…), perhaps 'the lake/pool of…'. The lessee is described as a 'slow writer', a person of limited literacy who signs with difficulty.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Landpacht). 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 · 23. Okt. 577 · Hermopolites

† βασιλείας καὶ ὑπατείας τοῦ θειοτάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου Φλαουίου Ἰουστίνου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους δωδεκάτου Φαῶφι εἰκὰς ἕκτῃ ἑνδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος. […] τῷ θαυμασιωτάτῳ υἱῷ τῆς μακαρίας μνήμης Ἰωάννου […] παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Κωνσταντίνου Βίκτορος βραδέως ὑπογράφοντος …