One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22167

Lease of land for three years with wheat rent and arrears TM 22167Oxyrhynchos8. Okt. 107

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The end of a three-year lease of farmland from Oxyrhynchus, dated 8 October 107, setting out payment of the rent in wheat at harvest time and penalties for default. The lessee Teon son of Nechthenibis acknowledges the terms and arrears of 31 1/4 artabas of wheat; Bakchios son of Chairemon signs for him because he is illiterate.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] The lease being guaranteed, let the lessee pay to the lessor each year in the month of Pauni, at the threshing floor of Episemos, the rent in wheat, new, clean, unadulterated, free of barley, sieved as for delivery to the public granary, measured by the quarter receiving measure of Sarapion; or let the lessee pay whatever he still owes with half as much again, and the lessor shall have the right of execution both upon the lessee and upon all his property. The lease is valid. Year 11 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, Phaophi 10. I, Teon son of Nechthenibis, have leased the land for the three years at a rent per aroura, for the two-year period of wheat, of 10 artabas of wheat per year, and for the coming year 2 artabas of wheat each, and I owe from arrears of past periods 31 1/4 artabas of wheat, and I will pay and do everything as stated above. I, Bakchios son of Chairemon, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters. Year 11 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, Phaophi 10.

The opening of the contract, naming the lessor and describing the land, is lost. The rent pattern (higher rent for two wheat years, lower for the third) suggests crop rotation; 'half as much again' (hemiolia) is the standard 50% penalty for default.

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.

p.oxy.18.2188

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 8. Okt. 107 · Oxyrhynchos

[… ? lines lost …] χ[…]…ντω…[…] τῆς δὲ μισθώσεως βεβαιουμένης ἀποδότω ὁ μεμισθωμένος τῷ μεμισθωκότι κατʼ ἔτος ἀεὶ ἐν μηνὶ Παῦνι ἐφʼ ἅλω Ἐπισήμου ἐκφορίου πυρὸν νέον καθαρὸν ἄδολον ἄκριθον κεκοσκινευμένον ὡς εἰς δημόσιον μετρούμενον μέτρῳ τετάρτῳ παραληπτικῷ τοῦ Σαραπίωνος ἢ ἀποτι…