Offer to lease land near Philadelphia from a former high priest TM 29452Ptolemais Euergetis (?) (Arsinoites)III (?)
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An offer to lease farmland near the village of Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, made by Aurelius Kastor alias Symmachos of the Sacred Gate quarter to Aurelius Valerius, a former high priest of the city of the Arsinoites. The lease is for the current year only, at a total rent of 26 artabas of wheat payable in Pauni, with the landowner paying public charges and the lessee doing all farm work.
In English machine translation
The four-choinix measure 'with the stroke' (dromos) refers to levelling off the grain at the rim of the measure. The acreage figures are mostly lost, so the size of the plots is unknown apart from the 4 1/2 arouras not under hay.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Proposition de bail). 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.gen.1.2ed.78
Αὐρηλίῳ Οὐαλερίῳ[…] ἀρχιερατεύσαντι τῆς Ἀρσινοϊτῶν πόλεως παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Κάστορος τοῦ καὶ Συμμάχου ἀπὸ ἀμφόδου Ἱερᾶς Πύλης. βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων σοι περὶ κώμην Φιλαδελφίαν[…] ἀρούρας … τος κλῆρος ἀρούρας[…]ἀπὸ νότου αὐτῶν ἀρούρας[…] ἀπὸ ἀπηλιώτου ἀρούρα…