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Lease of arouras for sowing fodder from Thermouthis TM 28866Tebtynis (Arsinoites)II

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Fragment of a two-year land lease in which the tenant undertakes to farm arouras belonging to a woman named Thermouthis (Thermouthion), sowing green fodder, paying rent in kind at harvest in Pauni and money rent in Phamenoth, plus customary extras of wheat and a hen. It comes from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome and dates to the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] … for sowing with green fodder for grazing […] … for the two-year period …[…] … of silver drachmas […] … and as gifts (?) on the […] arouras, 1/2 artaba of wheat, and for the two-year period each year one hen worth 2 drachmas, all free from deductions and from risk, carrying out each year the farming work of the arouras, and I will pay the rents in kind each year in the month Pauni at the threshing floor, new and clean, and the money rent in the month Phamenoth, the annual transport costs for hastening (the delivery) being my responsibility, while the conveyance of the rents in kind to the village is yours, Thermouthion. And after the term I will hand over the arouras clean of all weeds except rush and reed. You will guarantee the lease and (keep the land) clear of public charges … Thermouthis daughter of Herakles, with her guardian Didymos son of Eutychos, her son, …[…] as stated above. I, Eutychos, wrote on her behalf […]

Thalloi (here 'gifts') were customary extra payments in kind made by tenants on top of the rent. The subscription shows the lessor Thermouthis acting with her son Didymos as guardian, while one Eutychos wrote for her.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.

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

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