Offer to lease half an aroura near Thotis TM 26962HermopolitesII - III

Fragment of an offer to lease half an aroura of land near Thotis, from the kleros of Ptolemaios and Gaios, for two years starting in a 14th regnal year. Rent is 5 artabas of barley in the first year and 16 silver drachmas in the second, when the land is to be used for fodder crops; payment is due in Pauni and Epeiph at the threshing floor of Hermopolis. It comes from the Hermopolite nome, 2nd to 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

Xylame is a technical term for a crop rotation or fallow practice, here for growing fodder; its exact meaning is debated. A kleros was an allotment originally granted to a settler, still named after earlier holders.

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