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Offer to lease land for wheat and fodder for three years TM 28853Tebtynis (Arsinoites)II

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Fragment of an offer to lease farmland for three years at Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome, dating to the 2nd century AD. Part of the land is to be sown with wheat for a rent of 18 artabas, the remaining 3 arouras used for fodder and grazing for a money rent of 120 drachmas a year, with conditions on payment and on returning the land clean of weeds.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] for sowing with wheat at a rent in kind for the three-year period, together with which we shall receive 3 artabas of wheat seed, (a rent of) 18 artabas of wheat, and the remaining 3 arouras for sowing with fodder and for grazing of sheep and folding and pasturing of cattle for the three-year period, yearly, without seed, (for a rent of) 120 drachmas of silver, all (measured) by the four-choinix measure of the old granary, […] the rents free from deductions and from risk; and I will carry out all the yearly agricultural work on the arouras that is fitting at my own expense, and we will deliver the aforementioned rents yearly in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor, and the money rent in the month of Phamenoth, the yearly transport costs of the (crop) hastened (to market) (?) being our responsibility; and after the period we will hand back the arouras clean of couch-grass, all rush (?) and from the cultivation of the aforementioned (crops). If it seems good, (please) lease. I have signed.

The text is a lease offer (hypomnema of misthosis) ending with the formula 'if it seems good, lease'; the opening with names and the location of the land is lost. The phrase about transport costs 'of the epispoudasmos' is obscure and the translation is tentative.

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

p.mil.vogl.3.187

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

[… ? lines lost …] […]εἰς σπορὰν πυροῦ ἐκφορίου ἐπὶ τὴν τριετίαν σὺν αἱς λημψόμεθα σπερμάτων πυροῦ ἀρτάβαις τρισί , πυροῦ ἀρταβῶν δεκαοκτώ , τὰς δὲ λοιπὰς ἀρούρας τρεῖς εἰς σπορὰν χόρτου καὶ κατάβρωμαπροβάτων καὶ κοιτασμὸν καὶ κατανομὴν βοῶν ἐπὶ τὴν τριετίαν κατʼ ἔτος ἄνευ σπερμά…