Lease of 22 5/6 arouras with crop rotation near Oxyrhynchus TM 27744OxyrhynchosII - III

A fragmentary land lease in which Apollonios son of Diogenes of Oxyrhynchus leases 22 5/6 arouras near a village to two men, one of them Peteesis son of Nechthenibis, both 'Persians of the epigone', for four years. It sets a crop rotation with wheat in the first and third years, other crops in the second, and rents in wheat and in silver drachmas.

In English machine translation

'Persian of the epigone' is a legal status designation used in contracts, by this period with no ethnic meaning. The term xylamesai (sowing a non-grain or fodder crop) and ochomenion are uncertain in sense; the rent amounts are largely lost.

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