Offer to lease about six arouras of farmland for four years, with a crop rotation of wheat and barley in the first and third years and fodder for sheep and cattle in the second and fourth. Rents are set in grain and in money, with a cockerel as an annual gift, measured by the granary of Kerkesis. From Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome, 2nd century AD.
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[...] six [arouras or however many] they may be; in the [first] and third year of the lease, [four] arouras for sowing [with wheat] and the remaining two arouras [for sowing] with barley, at a rent in kind for the two-year period, each year, [including] the seed which you will supply to me, 4 artabas of wheat and 2 artabas of barley, a total each year of 56 artabas of wheat and [...] 4 artabas of barley, all by the four-choinix measure of the granary of the village of Kerkesis; and in the second and fourth year [for sowing] with green fodder, of which four arouras for grazing of sheep and folding, and the remaining two arouras for grazing of cattle and folding, at a money rent for the two-year period each year, without seed, of 100 [...] silver drachmas, [and as] customary gifts for the four-year period each year 1 cockerel worth 4 drachmas, and for the first [and third] year as supervisor's fee 1/2 artaba of barley, all free from deductions and risk; and I will carry out each year all the farming work on the arouras that is required, at my own expense, at the proper times, causing no damage; and I will pay the rents in kind each year in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor, new, clean and unadulterated, [and the money rent] in the month of Phamenoth, the measuring being done by one of your people, the yearly transport costs for hastening (?) being my responsibility, but the conveyance of the rents in kind being yours; and after the term I will hand over the arouras clean of all couch grass and weeds (?), except rush and reed, and four arouras ploughed up by an ox-drawn breaking plough; and you will guarantee the lease to me and keep it free of all public charges, if you agree to lease.
The opening with the parties' names is lost. "Folding" (koitasmos) refers to penning animals on the land overnight, which manured it.
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.