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Notice renouncing a land lease, addressed to the strategos TM 22851Hermopolites27. Jan. - 25. Febr. 144

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Two men of Hermopolis notify the strategos Herakleides that they are giving up their lease of about 19 arouras of land owned by Flavius Herakleios at Tertonosonouch, the lease term having expired, and ask that he be formally served with a copy. They promise to pay the outstanding rents; dated Mecheir of year 7 of Antoninus Pius (AD 144), Hermopolite nome.

In English machine translation

To Herakleides, strategos of the Hermopolite nome, from P...rlis son of Kornelios and Hermaios son of Diodoros, Hermopolites. Renouncing for the future the cultivation of the nineteen and a fraction arouras which we cultivate together with Apollonios son of Hermaios, now deceased, (leased) from Flavius Herakleios in the lower Leukopyrgite (toparchy), at Tertonosonouch, from the kleros of Theron, the period of the lease having been completed, we ask that a copy of this notice be delivered to him, either privately or through an attendant, so that, having written notification, he himself may make provision for the cultivation of the arouras from the coming 8th year and may know that he has no (claim) against us concerning […]. The annual rents and whatever else we owe him we shall pay at the proper time, and we shall use this notice in […]. Year 7 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Mecheir … […] [… 2 lines lost …]

A diastolikon was a formal notice lodged with the strategos to be served on another party, here the landowner. The name of the first petitioner is only partly legible."}

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 27. Jan. - 25. Febr. 144 · Hermopolites

Ἡρακλείδῃ στρατηγῷ Ἑρμοπολίτου παρὰ Π…ρλιος Κορνηλίου καὶ Ἑρμαίου Διοδώρου Ἑρμοπολιτῶν. παραιτούμενοι τὴν εἰς τὸ μέλλον γεωργίαν ὧν γεωργοῦμεν σὺν Ἀπολλωνίῳ Ἑρμαίου τετελευτηκότι ἀρουρῶν δέκα ἐννέα καὶ πρὸς παρὰ Φλαυίου Ἡρακλείου ἐν τῷ Λευκοπυργίτῃ κάτω Τερτονοσονουχ ἐκ τοῦ Θήρων…