Agreement
Contract between a group of people to do farm labor on their rented land
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 25708
Agreement to farm jointly leased state land at Hephaistias on half shares TM 25708Hephaistias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt (?)First century A. D.
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A private agreement (cheirographon) between two people who had jointly leased 4 arouras of state land near the village of Hephaistias in the Arsinoite nome. They agree to share the sowing, labour and seed equally and to divide the harvest in half. It dates to the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
A[…]p[…] whose mother is Aphrodisia daughter of Ammonios, greetings. The land which we leased from the state around the village of Hephaistias, from the properties registered for confiscated produce belonging to the administration (dioikesis), formerly of Herakleides, at 1 1/2 (artabas) of wheat (per aroura), 2 arouras, and likewise around the same village from dry land 2 arouras, in total 4 arouras, we agree by this note of hand that we shall jointly and equally, each for a half share, carry out
the sowing of these for the period for which we leased them, all the labour and seed being our responsibility jointly by half share, on condition that we shall enjoy
the produce of the aforesaid 4 arouras jointly and equally by half.
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The land came from estates 'registered for produce' (genematographoumena), i.e. property sequestered by the state and leased out. The opening names are largely lost and the end of the contract is missing.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract of Farm Labor on Half Share Basis). 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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Ἀ[…]π[…]μητρὸς Ἀφροδισίας τῆς Ἀμμωνίου χαίρειν. ἃς ἐμισθωσάμεθα ἐκ τοῦ δημοσίου περὶ κώμην Ἡφαιστιάδαν ἀπὸ τῶν τῆς διοικήσεως γενηματογραφουμένων ὑπαρχόντων πρότερον Ἡρακλείδου ἀνὰ πυροῦ μίαν ἥμισυ ἀρούρας δύο καὶ ὁμοίως περὶ τὴν αὐτὴν κώμην ἀπὸ χέρσου ἀρούρας δύο , τὰς ἐπὶ τὸ αὐ…