A lease of 12 arouras of land near Senberris in the Hermopolite nome, part of 18 arouras held jointly by two women, Besous and Artemidora. The tenant agrees to pay a fixed rent in wheat for the current year and partly in wheat, partly in silver for hay land the next year, delivered to Hermopolis. It is dated to Hathyr of year 4 of Antoninus Pius (AD 140).
In English machine translation
and […] the 12 arouras belonging to you in the Upper Toparchy of the Peri Polin district, near Senberris, from the kleros of Philiskos, out of 18 arouras held jointly and undivided in partnership by Artemidora daughter of Isidoros, of which 7 arouras are Besous's and 5 arouras are Artemidora's, at a fixed rent: for the present 4th year, 4 arouras at 6 artabas of wheat each and the remaining 8 arouras at 4 artabas of wheat each; and for the following 5th year, half to be sown with wheat at 4 artabas of wheat each and the other half for hay cut for fodder (?) at 16 silver drachmas each. I will pay and measure out everything each year to each of you according to your shares in the months of Pauni and Epeiph, the silver of good quality and the wheat new, clean, unadulterated, free of earth, free of barley, sifted, not wetted, fit to be measured into the public granary, by the Athenian sixth-measure, delivered to Hermopolis to your house; the public dues being your responsibility as landowners. I will pay […] and of the wine customary in leases 1 jar.
Year 4 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Hathyr […]
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The beginning of the lease, with the parties' names, is lost. "Xylame chortou" refers to land cropped for hay or fodder, a term without exact English equivalent; Peri Polin was a toparchy around Hermopolis.
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.