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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

To Aurelius Valerius […], former high priest of the city of the Arsinoites, from Aurelius Kastor also called Symmachos, from the quarter of the Sacred Gate. I wish to lease from you, from the land belonging to you near the village of Philadelphia […], arouras … […]-tos' kleros, arouras […]; to the south of them, arouras […]; to the east, arouras […]; total, the aforesaid; at a rent, for the arouras which are under hay, of 12 artabas of wheat, and for the remaining 4 1/2 arouras, 14 artabas of wheat; total of all together 26 artabas of wheat, total 26 artabas of wheat, for the current year only. The aforesaid rent I shall pay you in the month of Pauni from the threshing floor, by the four-choinix measure with the standard stroke, all public charges being your responsibility as landowner, and all the work being my responsibility as lessee: banking of dikes, irrigation, clearing of canals and everything that is proper, causing no damage. I, Aurelius Kastor also called Symmachos, have leased as stated above.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · III (?) · Ptolemais Euergetis (?) (Arsinoites)

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