Offer of royal farmers to lease royal land TM 25873Tebtynis? (Arsinoites)2. Hälfte I

Fragment of an offer or application addressed to village elders, among others, by Marepsemis, Psenkebkis and other public (royal) farmers concerning the lease of 20 arouras of royal land. It dates from the second half of the 1st century AD, probably from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

"Public farmers" (demosioi georgoi) were cultivators of state-owned (royal) land. The identification as an offer to lease depends on the catalogue title, since the text is badly damaged.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Offre de Paysans Royaux). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.