Fragment of a lease of arable land for rent in wheat TM 31842Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)1. Hälfte III

Fragment of a land lease in which the tenant promises to pay the landowner a rent in wheat each year: 5 artabas per aroura for one half of the land and 3 artabas per aroura for the other half, measured by the landowner's own measure. It comes from Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) in the Fayum, first half of the 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

"From fallow" and "from stubble" describe the condition in which the land is to be handed back at the end of the lease. An artaba is a dry measure for grain, and an aroura is a unit of land area.

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.