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Offer to lease plots of land for barley sowing TM 28882Tebtynis (Arsinoites)II

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Fragments of an offer to lease farmland, in which several men, including sons of Herakleos and Sarapion, propose to lease plots of a kleros for six years. Five arouras were to be sown with barley at a total yearly rent of 90 artabas of barley including 5 artabas of seed, and four further arouras under other terms. From Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome, 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[Fragment A] […] […] of Herakleos […] […] of Herakleos […] […] of Sarapion […] […] we wish to lease […] […] … […] […] … […] […] and in the so-called […] […] of the kleros, [arouras] […] [… four] for six years from the […] […] … […] […] … […] […] [Fragment B] […] […] in the year (?), the five arouras for the sowing of barley, at a yearly rent, including the 5 artabas of barley seed that we shall receive, of 90 artabas of barley in all; and the four arouras for the sowing of […], at a yearly rent […] […]

A kleros was an allotment of land originally granted to settlers; an aroura is about 0.68 acre. Many of the figures, such as the five arouras and the 90 artabas, depend partly on restoration.

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.

p.mil.vogl.6.294

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

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