A five-year land lease in which Aurelius Kollouthos son of Kyrakos of Nagogis in the Hermopolite nome rents 1 1/4 aroura of unirrigated land from Aurelius Petros son of Pinoution of the same village for an annual gold rent. It was drawn up on 31 October 555; the end of the document is lost.
In English machine translation
[recto]
† After the consulship of Flavius Basilius, the most glorious, year fifteen, Hathyr 3, of the fourth indiction.
Aurelius Kollouthos son of Kyrakos, who writes slowly, from the village of Nagogis in the Hermopolite nome, to Aurelius Petros son of Pinoution, from the same village, greetings. I, the aforementioned Kollouthos, acknowledge that I have voluntarily and of my own free will leased from you for a period of five years, reckoned from the crops of the fifth indiction, the 1 1/4 aroura, full measure, of unirrigated land belonging to you, lying in the plain of the same village, in the […] called Cholossoios, on the east side, for crops of whatever kind I choose, at an annual rent of 1 1/3 gold solidi less 8 carats by the standard of the village, total 1 1/4 aroura, rent in gold 1 solidus (?), 1 by the Alexandrian standard (?), which rent I am ready to pay you, of the one solidus […]
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[verso]
Lease of 1 1/4 aroura from Kollouthos son of Kyrakos from the village of Nagogis
The summary of the rent figures is abbreviated and its reading is uncertain. The 'slow writer' formula means Kollouthos was barely literate.
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.