One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 33288

Lease of orchard share, grain land and pasture TM 33288?4th c. AD

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Fragment of a lease in which Aurelius Es…, son of Horos, rents from a woman landowner a share of an orchard, grain land and pasture, paying money rent in two instalments, wheat delivered to Hermopolis, and customary gifts such as a piglet at the vintage and festivals. The lessor bears the public taxes. It dates to the first half of the 4th century AD, probably from the Hermopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[…] […] […] cellar (?) […] of the perennial (?) […] arouras […] [and] […] two arouras, and from the arouras […] the two-thirds and […] […] [or however] many arouras it is […] […] [in addition to these] the half share of the orchard […] the share of the fruits […] […] with us supplying the […] [at the time] of the vintage, and a piglet, [and at the annual] festivals I will [provide] the customary [gift], and on account of the rent [of the orchard, in silver] coin of the Augusti, […] [talents] […] paying in full [the rent] of this orchard [in two] [instalments] according to custom, and I will provide […] as fixed rent [of the grain] land […] artabas […] [and as rent for the pasture] four talents of silver, […] the wheat unadulterated, free of earth, [sieved], by the Athenian measure, delivered [to Hermopolis to] you, the rent not […] […] and the hay-store of the farmstead, [because we have thus agreed] with one another, […] all [the public] dues being [the responsibility of the lessor], that is, you the landowner. [The lease is valid and] having been asked I agreed. In the consulship stated above. I, Aurelius Es…, son of Horos, the aforesaid, [have leased. I, Aurelius] […], wrote on his behalf [as he does not know letters.] […]

Much of the text is editorial restoration based on standard lease formulas; the rent amounts are largely lost. The landowner (geouchos) is addressed as a woman.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease of Land and Other Immovables). 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 · 1. Hälfte IV · Hermopolites (?)

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