Sharecropping lease of land near Thynis for sowing arakos TM 22340Hermopolis24. Sept. 374

In the consulship of our master Gratian the eternal Augustus for the 3rd time and Flavius Equitius the most illustrious comes. To Flavius Isidoros, officialis of the staff of the governor of the Thebaid, from Aurelius Paamounis […] […] from Hermopolis, registered in the quarter of the West Fort. I wish voluntarily and of my own free will to lease from you for a period of […] years, reckoned from the crops of the fortunate 4th new indiction, the arouras belonging to you in the countryside near Thynis, from the holding named after them, however many they may be, for the sowing of arakos; and in place of rent I shall provide you with half of all the crops that result, I bearing the seed and all kinds of expenses from sowing to harvest, and the public taxes of all kinds being your responsibility as landowner. The lease is valid and, having been asked the formal question, I gave my consent. In the aforementioned consulship, Thoth 27. I, Aurelius Paamounis, the aforementioned, have leased as stated above. I, Flavius Hermapollon, former officialis of the procuratorship, having been asked, wrote on his behalf, he being present and not knowing letters.