Offer to lease, by six men of Hermopolis, of about 111 arouras of land owned by Marcus Antonius Pallas in the lower Leukopyrgite district for two years, specifying rents in barley, wheat and money for different uses of the land. Dated 6 October 121, Hermopolis.
In English machine translation
To Marcus Antonius Pallas,
from Menodoros also called Ammonios, son of Dioskoros, and Eudaimon son of Kyon, and Hermaios and Metokos, both sons of Eudemos, and Dios son of Heron, and Didymos son of Amphion, the six of them Hermopolites. We wish voluntarily to lease for two years from the present 6th year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, from the lands belonging to you in the lower Leukopyrgites around Panna…, from the (estate?) of Pona[…] also called Glaukos, 111 1/2 1/16 arouras, previously farmed by Hermesion son of Hermaios, of which … arouras at a fixed rent of six and a quarter artabas of barley, and of the other arouras, those lying fallow for sowing with wheat at five artabas of wheat by the public receiving measure, and the rest for green fodder of arakos and hay, 12 arouras for pasturing sheep and for bedding, and 13 arouras for pasturing cattle, and the rest for cutting, at a rent for each aroura of 16 silver drachmas, with transport charges and donkey-driving costs for the barley at the rate of … 1 1/2 artabas, to which we add as a surcharge five artabas of wheat by the public receiving measure. We shall pay the rents each year in the months of Pauni and Epeiph, under mutual guarantee, the wheat into the public granaries, and the money and the barley to the stewards of the estate, and we shall give each year as a libation 12 silver drachmas.
Year 6 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, Phaophi 9.
Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a vetch or chickling). The 'libation' (spondē) is a customary extra payment to the landowner.
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.