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Lease offer for six arouras of catoecic land near Theogonis TM 28877Tebtynis (Arsinoites)II

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Fragment of an offer to lease six arouras of catoecic land near the village of Theogonis for four years, alternating wheat and hay crops. The lessees, jointly liable, promise 66 artabas of wheat a year in wheat years, to be paid in Pauni by the granary measure of Theogonis. From Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome, 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] we wish to lease from you, on mutual security, the six arouras of catoecic allotment land belonging to you near the village of Theogonis, in one parcel, in the place called […], for four years from the […] year, […] in the first and third year for sowing with wheat, at a rent per year, including the 6 artabas of wheat seed which we shall receive, of 66 artabas of wheat in all each year; and in the second and fourth year for sowing with hay […] without rent […] for grazing of cattle (?), all free from deductions and risk; and we shall carry out all the work on the arouras that is proper at our own expense at the due seasons, causing no damage; and we shall pay the rents in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor, new, clean, unadulterated, by the six-choinix measure of the granary of Theogonis, the yearly transport charges for expedition being borne by us, and the [transport] of the rents […] […]

Catoecic land was allotment land originally held by military settlers and later freely transferable. Much of the wording is restored from standard lease formulas.

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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p.mil.vogl.6.289

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

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