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Offer to lease a vineyard at Ptolemais Hormou on a third-share basis TM 29089ArsinoitesII - III

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Fragmentary offer to lease a vineyard near Ptolemais Hormou for five years, addressed to a woman of about 40 acting through her husband, a veteran's descendant called also Titus. The lessee would take a third of the produce and undertake irrigation, embankment, reed-work and repairs. It dates to the 2nd-3rd century AD in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[…] about 40 years old, and however she is styled, through her husband […]apis also called Titus, of the veterans, [from …] I, [so-and-so] of the city of the […], wish to lease from […] […] Ptolemais Hormou, of a vineyard, with vines trained on trees […] […] of Ischyriaina (?), sublease of Peloros, former high priest, […] plants, for five years from the month of Thoth […] […] for the third share to me the lessee of the [future] produce, clear of all public charges […] [I will carry out all the] embankment work, irrigation, digging, about […] […] and the third for pruning (?) […] […] the reed-work, both anew and […] […] [I] supplying the sufficient reed and ropes and […] […] onto the nourishing (?) land, whatever […] […] from the irrigation machine, of new construction […] of nails and pitch, at […] […], and the partial repair […] [and the care] and attention [being] my responsibility as the lessee […] [I will do] the necessary things at my own expense at the proper times […] […] not to abandon the lease in any way […] […]

The vineyard was apparently held by the lessor under a sublease from Peloros, a former high priest. The anadendras was a vineyard with vines trained up trees or supports.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II - III · Arsinoites

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