Four-year lease of royal land at Psobthis TM 22522Oxyrhynchos29. Sept. - 28. Okt. 219

Aurelii Syrion, elder(?) […], and Heraklianos also called Sarapion, both from the city of Oxyrhynchus, have leased to Aurelius Ammonas son of […]ras, his mother being Tauseiris, from the village of Psobthis of the eastern toparchy, for 4 years from the current year 3, the 6 arouras of royal land, or however many there may be, registered in the name of Strati[…] son of […]on near the same Psobthis, so as to sow and cut each year one half with wheat and the other half with green crops, the rent and payment each year per aroura being, for the land in wheat, 8 artabas of wheat, and for the land in green crops, 44 drachmas, free from every risk, the public dues on the land each year falling on the lessors, who are to have control of the crops until they receive what is owed each year. If, which may it not happen, any land in the following years becomes unflooded, it will be allowed to the lessee. He, the lease being guaranteed, shall measure the yearly wheat into the public granary at his own expense and shall deliver the receipt to the lessors at the first measuring, clear of all charges, and shall pay the yearly money rent in the month of Pauni, the right of execution lying against him and all his property. The lease is valid. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, Phaophi […]. I, Aurelius Ammonas son of […]ras, have leased the land for the 4 years and I will pay the aforesaid as stated above. I, Aurelius […], son of […]ogenes, wrote on his behalf. […]