Ten-year lease of unirrigated land from the heirs of Philippos TM 22590Hermopolis5. Nov. 553

† In the reign of our most divine master Flavius Justinian, the eternal Augustus and Emperor, year 27, after the consulship of Flavius Basilius, the most glorious, year [...], Hathyr 9, of the second indiction. To the heirs of Philippos of learned memory, deceased, from [...] from the city of the Hermopolites, from Aurelius Ioannes son of Ionios, his mother being [...], writing slowly, farmer, originating from the village of [...] of the Hermopolite nome. I acknowledge that I have voluntarily and of my own free will leased from your eloquence, for a period of ten years reckoned from the crops of the third indiction coming, with God's help, and that indiction itself, the 6 unirrigated arouras belonging to you [...], situated in the plain of the aforesaid village of the Hermopolite nome in the place called Ara[...] [...] [...] [...] 7 gold solidi less 42 carats by the public standard of the same city, total 7 gold solidi less 42 carats, which gold solidi I will pay to your eloquence in the month of Phaophi in full and without delay, there being pledged to your learning for this lease and for the payment and rendering [...] all my property, present and future, in general and in particular, by way of pledge and by right of mortgage, as if by legal judgment. And having been asked the formal question, I have agreed [...] [...]