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Lease of ten arouras of private land at Talao to three brothers TM 21967Oxyrhynchos165 A.D.

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Beginning of a lease in which Apollonios, a councillor of Antinoopolis, acting through his agent Dioskoros, leases 10 arouras of private land near the village of Talao to three brothers for four years. Half is to be sown with wheat and half with grass, for a fixed annual rent in wheat and money. Oxyrhynchos, AD 165-166.

In English machine translation

[recto] Apollonios son of Apollonios, of the Sebastian tribe and Kaisarian deme, councillor of the Antinoites, through Dioskoros his agent, has leased to Kronion son of Pausiris, his mother being Sinnechotis, and to his brothers by the same mother, Harpaesis and Horos, both sons of Anempeus son of Harpaesis, all three from the village of Talao, for four years, that is four inundations, from the present sixth year of Antoninus and Verus, the Caesars, our lords, out of the property belonging to him near Talao in the holding of Kallias, 10 arouras of private land, so that the lessees shall each year sow and clear of wood (?) half with wheat and the other half with grass, either for fodder or for cutting and summer grazing, they having the right to sow each year in the half under grass whatever vegetable seed they choose; the rent and dues each year being fixed for the whole 10 arouras, with no measurement taking place, at 15 artabas of wheat and […]-eight drachmas of silver, all free from every risk, the public dues on the land […] [verso] Lease of 10 arouras from the holding of Kallias […]

The verb rendered 'clear of wood' (xylamesai) is a rare agricultural term of uncertain exact meaning. The money amount of the rent is partly lost (some number of tens plus eight drachmas).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease of 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.

Lease of Land

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Oxy.1686 · 165 A.D. · Oxyrhynchos

Beginning of a lease of 10 arourae of Idiotike ge at Talao from a senator of Antinoou polis to three brothers, half to be sown with wheat.

p.oxy.14.1686

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 165 - 166 · Oxyrhynchos

[r] ἐμίσθωσεν Ἀπολλώνιος Ἀπολλωνίου Σεβάστιος ὁ καὶ Καισάριος βουλευτὴς Ἀντινοέων διὰ Διοσκόρου φροντιστοῦ Κρονίωνι Παυσίριος μητρὸς Σιννεχώτου καὶ τοῖς ὁμομητρίοις ἀδελφοῖς Ἁρπαήσει καὶ Ὧρῳ ἀμφοτέροις Ἀνεμπέως τοῦ Ἁρπαήσιος τοῖς τρισὶ ἀπὸ κώμης Ταλαὼ εἰς ἔτη τέσσαρα βροχὰς τέσσα…