An offer to lease land, in which …os son of Horion, from the metropolis, proposes to rent 4 arouras of a kleros near Tebtynis for six years. Wheat is to be sown in alternate years for a rent of 40 artabas, and hay in the other years for 36 drachmas a year plus a small extra payment. It dates from the 2nd century AD, from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[…] […]
[from …]os son of Horion, from the metropolis.
[I wish to] lease from you the 4 arouras of a kleros belonging [to you near the village of] Tebtynis, [in the place called] Tb…utis, for six years from the present […], in the first, third and fifth
[year for sowing wheat, at a rent, including] the 4 artabas of seed which I shall receive, of 40 artabas of wheat in all;
[and in the second] and fourth and sixth year for sowing hay,
[at a rent per year for the] three-year period of 36 drachmas
[and as a customary gift …] 4 drachmas, all free of deductions [and risks]; and I shall carry out the yearly work,
[all that is fitting, at my own expense, at the] proper times […]
[… lines lost …]
A kleros was an allotment of land originally granted to a settler. The 'customary gift' (thallos) was a small extra payment in kind or money made by tenants to the landlord, and much of the rent clause is restored.
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.