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Lease of land and vineyard by a father from his daughter at Tarrouthis TM 22778Tarrhuthis (Antaiopolites)8. Mai 558

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A lease in which the farmer Aurelius Apollos also called Phellos rents for five years from his own daughter Aurelia Eudoxia a half share of arable land and vineyard that her uncle, a priest of the 'mountain' of the Antaiopolites, had given her by written deed of gift. It was drawn up at Tarrouthis in the Antaiopolite nome in May 558.

In English machine translation

[c] † In the reign of our most divine master Flavius Justinian, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 32, after the consulship of Flavius Basilius, the most glorious, year 17, Pachon 13, beginning of the 7th indiction. To Aurelia Eudoxia, daughter of Apollos also called Phellos, from the village of Tarrouthis of the Antaiopolite nome, from Aurelius Apollos also called Phellos, your aforementioned father, son of Phoibammon, mother Maria, writing slowly, farmer from the same village. I, the aforementioned Apollos also called Phellos, acknowledge that I have of my own free will and choice leased from you for a period of five years, reckoned from the crops of the present seventh indiction, the property given to you, my aforementioned daughter Eudoxia, by my most pious full brother […] [b] […] priest of the mountain of the Antaiopolites, from the aforementioned village of Tarrouthis, according to a written deed of gift made to you previously by him: a half share of the arouras to be specified below, however many they are, both in sown land and in vineyard, with all movable, immovable and self-moving property, in accordance with […] the same written deed of gift, according to the description set out below […] […] arouras, however many they are, lying west of the road there and east of the vineyard plot belonging to me, the aforementioned Apollos also called Phellos, and to the aforementioned Eudoxia my daughter, the northern portion of these, of however many arouras, that is, from their northern end southwards as far as the other half share of them, and from their eastern end westwards as far as their western end; and a half share of the dry vineyard land, of however many arouras, lying east of the same road, that is, the […] portion of it, of however many arouras.

The 'mountain' (oros) refers to the desert edge, where monasteries and churches lay; 'dry vineyard' (cherasampelos) is vineyard land gone out of cultivation. Fragment c is printed before fragment b, following the text's order.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as p.lond.3.1007b_plus_c). 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.3.1007b_plus_c

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 8. Mai 558 · Tarrhuthis (Antaiopolites)

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