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Lease of vineyard land with water-machine at Pesla TM 22774Hermopolites

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Lease of 3 arouras of dry land with vineyard, cistern and water-wheel near the village of Pesla in the Hermopolite nome, taken by Aurelius Horitos son of Isidoros of Sinakyreos from the Aureliae Archontia and Vanthia of Hermopolis. The lessee undertakes irrigation with his own animals and the vineyard work, including five diggings a year. The text is dated by the post-consulate of Basilius in an 11th indiction.

In English machine translation

643, 29 (?) † After the consulship of Flavius Basilius the most glorious, year 21 (?) […] of the 11th indiction. To the Aureliae Archontia daughter of A[…] and Vanthia daughter of Ioannes, from the city of the Hermopolitans, from Aurelius Horitos son of Isidoros, his mother being Heraeis, [both] from the village of Sinakyreos in the Hermopolite nome, greetings. I, the aforesaid Horitos, acknowledge by this my written security, willingly and of my own choice, that I have leased from you, for as long a time as you wish, reckoned from the crops of the fortunate coming 12th indiction itself, the 3 arouras of dry land belonging to you […] vineyard, more or less, cleared of reeds from the […], according to custom (?), together with the whole cistern and water-supply and wooden water-machine and all equipment and every right, lying in the plain of the village of Pesla in the Hermopolite nome, from the so-called machine of Aphous, on condition that the irrigation be done by my animals, which are also fed, up to the viticultural work, and all care and cultivation and 5 diggings in the year […] and […] I shall perform for you, and that whatever accrues in your […] be settled […] [… lines lost …]

The post-consulate of Basilius (541) was used as an era for decades; the 21st year with an 11th indiction points to about AD 562/563. The opening 'χμγ' is a Christian cryptogram often read as 643, not a date.

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.3.1003

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Hermopolites

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