Lease of 3 arouras of arable land near Thynis for one year TM 22784Hermopolis7. Sept. 633

[recto] † In the name of the holy and life-giving and consubstantial Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit. In the reign of our most divine and most serene and God-crowned masters Flavii Heraclius and Heraclius New Constantine, the eternal Augusti, Emperors and greatest benefactors, year 23, Thoth 10, of the seventh indiction. † † To Aurelius Danielios, farmer, son of the late Christodoros, from the city of the Hermopolitans, † from Aurelius Iosephios son of Paulos, his mother being Martha, farmer, from the same city of the Hermopolitans. I acknowledge that I have voluntarily and of my own free will leased from you for one year only, that is, for the crops of the coming, God willing, eighth indiction only, the 3 arouras of arable land belonging to you, each aroura measured at the full 64 hammata by the just measuring cord, lying in the holding called Tbote in the plain of the village of Thynis and under its guard, in the Hermopolite nome, together with their share of the reservoir there and of the water wheel and the cattle shed and every right, for sowing and planting whatever crops I choose, at a rent of fifteen artabas of wheat, total 15 artabas of wheat. This rent, new, good, clean and sifted, by your Athenian measure, I will pay and deliver to you at your house in Hermopolis with my own animals and at my own expense in the month of Epeiph of the same indiction. The lease is valid and secure, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. † I, Aurelius Iosephios son of Paulos […] […] † […] of Iosephios son of Paulos, farmer, from […]