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Three-year lease of farmland with a water-wheel near Heliou TM 22621Hermopolis16. Sept. 561

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A three-year lease in which a farmer from the village of Heliou in the Hermopolite nome rents a farm holding of the sons of Belas, with a wooden water-wheel, from Hermopolite councillors, paying a rent of 120 artabas by the Athenian measure in Epeiph. It was drawn up at Hermopolis in September 561 and signed by a scribe for the illiterate lessee, witnesses and a notary.

In English machine translation

[After the consulship of Flavius Basilius, year] twenty, Thoth 19, 10th indiction. [To …] Zacharias, councillors of the city of the Hermopolites, […]enes son of Georgios, from the village of Heliou in the Hermopolite [nome]. [I acknowledge that I have willingly and] voluntarily leased from you for three [years counted from the crops of the], God willing, coming eleventh indiction [and itself] […] of the farm holding of the sons of Belas, that is [arouras] […] of the holding and a wooden water-wheel (?) equipped with all [equipment] […] of Theon, lying in the plain […] [for sowing and] storing of whatever crops I choose, at a rent of […] 120 artabas by the Athenian measure […] four; in case of lack of flooding, which may it not happen, I shall provide […] [which rent], new, clean, sieved, by the measure […] [I shall pay and measure out to you in] the month of Epeiph and into your granary […] I have the irrigation, a two-thirds share from […] in winter the second of the month […] blamelessly. I shall provide by customary reckoning according to the […] the period of the lease as I have received it […] farmer, son of Paulos son of Phibios, the aforementioned: I have leased as aforesaid. […] [I wrote on his behalf], as he does not know letters, Greek […] […] I witness the lease, having heard it from the party. […] [I witness the] lease, having heard it from the party. [Through me] […] notary, through Victor son of …

The left side of the document is lost throughout, so names and figures are incomplete. The word read as 'ogranon' is taken as a form of 'organon', a water-lifting machine (saqiya).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 16. Sept. 561 · Hermopolis

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