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Partnership in the cultivation of leased public land TM 21685Hermopolis29. Aug. 208

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A contract from Hermopolis in which a man, son of Ammonios, takes Hermes son of Diogenes as a one-third partner in public land he had leased for five years. Hermes is to pay a third of the rents and expenses and receive a share of the produce; the document is dated 29 August 208.

In English machine translation

[…], son of Ammonios, of Hermopolis, to Hermes son of Diogenes, of the same city, greetings. I acknowledge that I have taken you as partner for […] of the lands which I too leased from the public domain […] for five years from the present 17th year of Severus and Antoninus and Geta, Caesars the lords, in the Lower Peri Polin toparchy, around […] from the hay-and-dry land of Dionysios, of […] 1/2 1/4 1/8 1/16 arouras […] we […] each year, of the rent in kind and rent in money […] declared in my lease […] for the third share of the rents under the lease […] and of the additional charges you will pay and measure out each year […] and we shall each take charge of the cultivation […] and all the produce each year […] from the third share after all the public dues […] share, and all the expenses incurred […] you will pay in the same shares. And if after the aforesaid period I am held to the cultivation, you will farm with me likewise for the same third share until I am released from the cultivation. The agreement is valid, my claim remaining concerning what I have against you […] rights. Year 17 of the Emperors Caesars Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus Maximus and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus, Thoth 1. […] son of Ammonios, Patem[…] […] […] Hermopol[…] […] son of Ammonios, of the same city, I wish of my own free will […] the present 17th year of Severus […]

Public land (land of the state domain) was often leased to private farmers, who could be compelled to keep cultivating it after the lease expired, hence the clause about being 'held to the cultivation'. The fractions of arouras survive without the whole number.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract of Partnership). 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 · 29. Aug. 208 · Hermopolis

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