Fragment of a lease of farmland in the Oxyrhynchite nome, in which tenants described as Persians of the epigone, living in the street of Kleopatra Aphrodite, lease a kleros (allotment) in the middle toparchy for a rent in Arsinoite wheat per aroura. Extra payments, including the price of wine in Pharmouthi, birds and eggs, are also stipulated.
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[...] ... [...]
[...] of Apollonios ... [...]
[...] of Apollonios also called [...]
[...] Persians of the epigone, all of the street of Kleopatra Aphrodite, the allotment (kleros) belonging to him
[...] of the middle toparchy, for the coming [...] at a rent of [...] per aroura
[...] according to survey by rectangular measure, in Arsinoite wheat [...] the whole allotment or also
[...] they shall necessarily irrigate
[...] they shall [...] in wheat of the rent
[...] and apart from the rents
[...] in Pharmouthi the price of wine
[...] 4 birds, 20 eggs
[...] all the land [...]
[...]
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"Persians of the epigone" was a legal status designation, not an ethnic one. Much of the wording, including the street name, is restored by the editor.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment eines Pachtvertrages über Ackerland). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.