Offer to lease unproductive state land near Senao TM 21771Oxyrhynchos8. Nov. 139

To Petronius Dionysius, strategos, from Ophelas also called Korax, freedman of Apia also called Dionysia, daughter of Dionysios, from the city of Oxyrhynchus. I undertake to lease from the state for five years from the present third year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, of the unproductive (hypologos) land near Senao, from the allotments of Herakleides and Herakleides, 3 arouras, whose neighbours are: on the south a field, on the north and east a public dyke, on the west the land of Didymion son of Demetrios; so that each year I may sow and cut wood with whatever I choose except wheat, woad and ochomenion, and that I may have the pasturage and after-pasturage, at a rent for the whole of 4 drachmas in all each year, which I will pay each year in the month Kaisareios. If any part becomes unflooded, it will be allowed to me, and after the five-year period I shall not be compelled to continue the lease. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Hathyr 11. I, Ophelas also called Korax, have submitted this. Through Hermes, nomographos […]