Contract for labour in a vineyard at Talao TM 21972Oxyrhynchos29. Aug. - 27. Okt. 188

[recto] Apion son of Horeion, former gymnasiarch of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, has leased to Amois son of Amois, his mother being Sambous, residing at Talao, for one year from the new moon of Hathyr of the present 29th year, all the manual labours of vine-cultivation, except wood-cutting, on the vineyard estate and reed-plantation belonging to him near Talao from the kleros of Ptolemaios son of Tryphon, of whatever number of arouras it is, old as well as new; these labours are: plucking of the reeds, carrying them to the usual place, sweeping up the leaves, cutting them up and carrying them outside the enclosure (?) to suitable places, hoeing, trenching along the borders, digging ditches in the places that need it, cutting the new reed for the reed-work, the reed-work, the landowner providing sufficient reed and bark, irrigation and continuous weeding, hoeing up, removal of shoots, spacing of the leaves and tying up of shoots, stripping of leaves; and he will be present at the vintage, and he will tread the Pelusian wine, and further he will guard in the field the usual […] towards the village, and he will carry […] the produce until […] carried […] [… ? lines lost …] [verso] Lease of vine-cultivation labours, 29th year, of Apion […]