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Offer to lease land from the kleros of Zopatros in the Hermopolite nome TM 22696Hermopolites (?)153 - 154

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Offer to lease land, in which Tesenouphis son of Tourbon of Hermopolis proposes to rent for two years farmland belonging to Sarapion son of Sarapion, part of the kleros of Zopatros in the Lower Peri Polin district. The land is to be sown with wheat at a rent of 7 1/2 artabas per aroura, starting in the 17th year of Antoninus Pius (AD 153/154).

In English machine translation

To Sarapion son of Sarapion grandson of Sarapion, from Tesenouphis son of Tourbon grandson of Amonios, of Hermopolis. I wish of my own free will to lease from you for two years from the current 17th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord the [arouras] belonging to you in the Lower Peri Polin (district) […] from the kleros of Zopatros, set apart (?) […] so as to sow in the current 17th year [with wheat, at a rent] for each aroura of 7 1/2 (artabas) of wheat [… ? lines lost …]

Peri Polin ("around the city") is the name of a toparchy of the Hermopolite nome; a kleros is a plot originally allotted to a settler, here named after Zopatros. The end of the document is lost.

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.

p.lond.3.858a

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 153 - 154 · Hermopolites (?)

Σαραπίωνι Σαραπίωνος τοῦ Σαραπίωνος Τεσενοῦφις Τούρβωνος Ἀμωνίου Ἑρμοπολίτης. βούλομαι ἑκουσίως μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ ἐπʼ ἔτη δύο ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ιζ ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου τὰς ὑπάρχουσάς σοι ἐν τῷ Περὶ πόλιν κάτω περι[…]οαγα […] ἐκ τοῦ Ζωπάτρου κλήρου ἀποτάκτου […]……