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End of a land lease offer in which two illiterate farmers, Tothes and Pathotes, declare to a landowner that they have leased land, with Eudaimon son of Komon writing for them. The surviving terms fix rents in wheat for 10 arouras sown with wheat and 3 arouras sown with fodder crops. Dated 31 October 123 under Hadrian.
Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a kind of vetch). The lines after the subscription appear to be an added note on terms for the ninth year and are partly damaged.
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.
[… ? lines lost …] οντων πρὸς σὲ τὸν γεοῦχον ἔτους ὀγδόου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Ἁθὺρ γ. Τοθῆς Κ…ιος καὶ Παθώτης ὁ καὶ[…]ις Κορνηλίου μεμισθώμεθα καθὼς πρόκειται. Εὐδαίμων Κόμωνος ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν μὴ εἰδότων γράμματα. πρὸς μόνον τὸ ἔνατος απο[…]θ ἀρούρα…
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