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An offer to lease land, addressed by Aurelius Demetrios alias Agathos Daimon, a gymnasiarch and councillor of Hermopolis, to another gymnasiarch and councillor, son of Kolon. He proposes to rent 7 1/2 arouras near Pake for four years, alternating halves between wheat and fodder crops, for a rent in wheat and silver. It dates to the second half of the 3rd century AD.
The rent amounts are lost; only part of a figure in thousands of drachmas survives. 'By halves' refers to the common rotation of sowing half the plot with wheat and half with fodder each year.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtangebot). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] […]…ῳ Κόλωνος γυμνασιάρχῳ βουλευτῇ τῆς λαμπροτάτης Ἑρμουπόλεως παρὰ ΑὐρηλίουΔημητρίου τοῦ καὶ Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονος γυμνασιάρχου βουλευτοῦ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. βούλομαι ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐθαιρέτως μισθώσασθαι παρά σου ἐπʼ ἔτη τέσσαρα ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος[…]ἔτους τὰς ὑπαρχούσας σοι περὶ Πακὴ …
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