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Lease of farmland from Zenodoros TM 3205Arsinoites (?)104 - 103 v.Chr. (?)

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Fragment of a lease of farmland in which Zenodoros is the lessor and several lessees undertake to pay the rent in new clean wheat in Pauni of year 14, with a penalty of 3,000 bronze drachmas per artaba not paid. It includes guarantees by the lessor and clauses on charges and crop damage; probably from the Arsinoite nome, about 104-103 BC.

In English machine translation

[…] […] immediately […] […] … drachmas of bronze […] […] … […] … […] [free from both royal] [and] private debts of every kind; and if […] not […] [Zenod]oros does not secure for the lessees the … […] [let Zenodoros forfeit a penalty and] the [damage], and the lease shall nonetheless be valid […] [the les]sees and their agents [shall be free] from every penalty a[nd all loss] […] [and the lessees shall pay] to Zenodoros the rent in the month of Pauni of the fourt[eenth year] […] [in new wheat, clean and] unadulterated, by the 4-choinix measure of the village […] [wherever Zenodoros] directs. For whatever artaba they do not pay as w[ritten] […] [let them forfeit for] each [artaba] 3,000 drachmas of bronze or the [highest] current [price] […] [and let] Zenodoros [have ownership of the crops] until he [recovers] all that is his in ful[l. If they are charged anything] […] [on account of] this [land] or on behalf of Zenodoros himself, on producing an [agreed] rec[eipt, let it be deducted] […] [if] […] or wind-blighted or any other … damage […] the lessees, having received […] … […] … […] […]

Much of each line is restored from standard Ptolemaic lease formulas. The 'tetrachoinix' was the local village grain measure.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ackerpacht). 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 · 104 - 103 v.Chr. (?) · Arsinoites (?)

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