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Offer to lease farmland for four years TM 28879Tebtynis (Arsinoites)II

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Fragmentary offer to lease farmland for four years, made by a man described as a 'Persian of the descent', from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome. It sets out an alternating crop rotation, a rent in artabas of grain payable each Pauni at the threshing floor, and the lessee's duty to return the land clean of weeds.

In English machine translation

[…] […] […] Persian of the descent. I wish to lease from you for four years from the […] year […] […] […] […] in the first and third year for sowing […] […] and in the second and fourth year for sowing whatever I choose, except […] and wheat, at a rent for the two-year period per year, without seed, of ten artabas […] by the […] choinix measure of the granary […] all free from deductions and risk; and I will carry out all the annual agricultural work of the arouras; and I will pay you the rent each year in the month of Pauni on the threshing floor, new, clean, unadulterated, the annual transport charges for prompt delivery (?) being my responsibility, and the conveyance of the rent being yours; and after the term I will hand over the arouras clean of all couch-grass and weeds except rush and reed; and you will guarantee the lease to me and keep it free from public charges […] […] […]

'Persian of the descent' was by this period a legal status designation, not an ethnic one, often used of debtors or contracting parties. 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.6.291

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

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