Four-year lease of eight arouras near Kerkethoinis TM 26536OxyrhynchitesII

Apollonios son of Apollonios grandson of Diogenes, from Oxyrhynchus city, has leased to Thotes son of Zoilos grandson of Thotes, from the farmstead formerly of Sarapion son of Chairemon near Senepsau, for four years from the coming twelfth year, the 8 arouras which he owns near Kerkethoinis, so that in the first and third years he shall each year sow them with green crops for cutting (?), at a fixed annual rent of 24 artabas of wheat, and in the second and last years he shall each year sow them with wheat at a fixed annual rent of 80 artabas of wheat, and for the four-year period, each year, as extra charges, 8 drachmas for a libation, all free from every risk, the annual work on the dykes and the guarding of the water being the responsibility of the lessee Thotes. If any land becomes unflooded, allowance shall be made to the lessee, the annual public dues on the land being the responsibility of the lessor. The lessee acknowledges that he has received from the lessor a loan in advance of 100 drachmas, which he will also repay to him in the month of Phamenoth of the coming twelfth year, free from every risk. The lessor shall have ownership of the crops until he recovers what is due to him. The lease being guaranteed, the lessee shall pay the lessor the advance without delay, and the fixed annual rent in the month of Pauni on the threshing floor […] […] new wheat, clean, unadulterated, free of barley, sieved, as measured for the public treasury […] […] […]