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Lease of 22 arouras of grain land at Philadelphia TM 33264Philadelphia (Arsinoites)IV

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A lease offer from Aurelius Longinas of Philadelphia to the landowner Aurelius Sarapammon, asking to rent 22 arouras of private grain land in five named localities for five years starting from a fifth indiction. The landowner remains responsible for taxes, annona levies and dyke work. Written in Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome in the 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] Aurelius Longinas son of Alypios, his mother being Zoe, from the village of Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, to Aurelius Sarapammon son of Paesis, from the same village of Philadelphia in the same nome, greetings. I wish to lease from you the 22 arouras of grain land, twenty-two, belonging to you around the same village of Philadelphia and part of Tanis. The location is as follows: in the place called Piabaly, 12 arouras of private land, twelve; and in the place called Sa, 5 arouras of private land, five; and in the place called Psaei, 2 arouras of private land, two; and in the place called Zepsei, 1 aroura of private land, one; and in the place called Theme, 2 arouras of private land, two; for a period of five years from the auspicious coming fifth indiction, the public taxes and annona levies and all kinds of impositions and the work on the dykes being the responsibility of you, the landowner, in the presence of Aion son of Gerontios and […]; and after the period I will hand the arouras back to you clear of stubble, and I am not permitted to abandon the lease in any way. The lease is valid and binding, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. In the consulship […] […] [verso] Lease of Longinas son of Alypios from Philadelphia, 22 arouras.

The rent clause is not stated in the surviving text, and the consular dating is lost. The annona was a tax in kind levied for state supplies.

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.

bgu.2.519

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · IV · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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