Offer to lease the estate of Sarapion's orphan sons from the exegetes TM 21683Hermopolis19. März 78

[recto] To Hermaios son of Apollonios, of the Philoklaudian tribe and the Althaian deme, exegetes of the Hermopolite nome, from Apollonios son of Ammonios and Horion son of Horion, Hermopolites. We wish voluntarily to lease for five years from the present tenth year of Vespasian the lord all the property left in any manner whatsoever to his orphan sons by Sarapion son of Kastor from Kousai, and whatever else we may discover in the name of the orphan sons of the said Sarapion, at a yearly rent, apart from the artaba-tax per aroura and the naubion, of 600 silver drachmas {apart from the artaba-tax per aroura and the naubion}. And if we are asked for or made to pay anything else apart from the artaba-tax per aroura and the naubion, it will be credited to us out of the aforesaid rent. We will pay the rent each year in the month of Phaophi to whomever you, the exegetes, instruct. And if any land becomes unflooded or washed away by the river or covered with sand or eroded from the coming eleventh year, it will be credited to us out of the aforesaid rent proportionately. If it seems good, let a copy of this lease be posted for the proper ten days, so that, if no one makes a higher bid, the lease may remain secure to us for the five-year period without change. Year 10 of Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus, Phamenoth 23. I, Horion son of Horion, have submitted it. I, Apollonios son of Ammonios, have submitted it jointly, as stated above. [verso] […] lease of Apollonios son of Ammonios […]