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Offer to lease a palm grove and land from Papontos and associates TM 26494ArsinoitesII

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Fragmentary offer to lease a palm grove with its land from Papontos and associates, for the coming year. The prospective lessee may sow any crop except safflower, pays the public dues, undertakes all cultivation at his own cost, and will return the property after the harvest. From the Arsinoite nome, 2nd century AD, apparently in the reign of Hadrian or later.

In English machine translation

[…] dry land (?) […] the date palms falling due in the coming year, and the land for sowing with whatever crops I choose except safflower, in return for all the public dues measured and paid on them; and further, as the survey of the same year determines, free from deductions and from risk. And I shall carry out all the proper work, as much as is fitting, each at my own expense at the appropriate time, and after the term I shall hand it back as I too received it, after the gathering of the crops. You, Papontos and associates, shall not be permitted after the term to hold me to this lease, because it has been leased for the coming year. If it seems good to you, lease it on these terms. Horion […] I request. Year […] […] Hadrianus […]

The rent is not money but payment of the state dues on the property. The imperial name Hadrianus in the date may belong to Hadrian or to a later emperor bearing that name, such as Antoninus Pius.

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

DDbDP-text Full record →

bgu.15.2484

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Arsinoites

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