Offer to lease unproductive state land in the Hermopolite nome TM 22848Hermopolis23. Okt. 152

To Apollonides, strategos of the Hermopolite nome, from Cornelius son of Aphynchis, grandson of Petenobsis, of Hermopolis, registered in the quarter of West City. I wish voluntarily to lease from the state, for the present 16th year only of Antoninus Caesar the lord, from the unproductive land in the Lower Koussites district, around Taskesis, in the village scribe's district, half-share, from the kleros of Poron, 5 arouras, previously farmed by Antonius also called Achilles son of Poron, for sowing and planting whatever crops I choose except wheat, at the rent paid previously […] in the past 15th year of Antoninus the lord, of 60 drachmas, to which I add as a surcharge on the whole […] because of the particular character of the year, 12 silver drachmas […]. I shall pay the rent and the surcharge to the public treasury at the proper time, if it seems good to lease to me on these terms. Year 16 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Phaophi 26. I, Cornelius son of Aphynchis, have submitted this.