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An ostracon containing an offer by Nemonios, with his son Horos and his wife Senphabos, to lease public land at Nesos Piasemse… in the Theban district. It is addressed to the strategos Paniskos and dated to the 4th year of Trajan (AD 100-101). The area offered is a little over 3 3/4 arouras.
Chersos means unproductive dry land not reached by the flood, often leased out at reduced rents. The place name and the end of the final line are incompletely read.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Offer to Lease). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Πανίσκῳ στρατηγῶι περὶ Θήβας παρὰ Νεμωνίου …[…]…ίου τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ· θέλομεν μεμισθῶσθαι ἐκ τοῦ δημοσίου ἐδάφους πρὸς τὸ ἐνεστὸς δ ἔτος Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου τὸ ὑπὲρ τοῦ χέρσου διατεταγμένον ἐπὶ Νήσου Πιασεμσε… μετὰ υἱοῦ Ὥρου καὶ γυναικὸς Σενφαβῶς […]…ρου ἀρούρας γ…
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