A lease offer in which Aurelius Kastor son of Polydeukes, from the hamlet of Kalchon in the Hermopolite nome, takes 5 arouras near Ibion Panektyreos for one year to grow hay, sharing the crop half and half with the landowner. The lessee bears the farming costs and the landowner the taxes. It is dated by the consuls of AD 341, Pauni 5.
In English machine translation
[…] through me, Silvanus,
[…] from Hermopolis,
from Aurelius Kastor son of Polydeukes,
from the hamlet of Kalchon of the same nome.
I wish of my own free will to lease from you for one year, for the sowings of the 16th indiction, the land belonging to you near the village of Ibion Panektyreos, […] of the five-aroura plot, 5 arouras, for sowing
long-growing hay on halves,
and to me the lessee the remaining half share, and of your half of the hay in sheaves, in return for which I bear the expenses from sowing
until harvest and the harvest itself, the public taxes and levies of every kind being all the charge of the
landowner. The lease is valid.
And having been asked, I agreed. In the consulship
of Antonius Marcellinus and Petronius Probianus, the most illustrious.
Pauni 5.
I, Aurelius Kastor son of Polydeukes, the aforesaid, have leased as stated above. I, Aurelius Kastor son of Horion, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters.
The opening address naming the landowner, apparently represented by Silvanus, is damaged. The consular date (Marcellinus and Probinus) corresponds to AD 341, with the 16th indiction referring to the coming agricultural year.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Affitto di terreno). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.