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End of a land lease in which Aurelius Manos son of Paesios agrees to pay female landowners a fixed yearly rent of 6 1/2 artabas of wheat and 6 1/2 artabas of arakos in Epeiph, with the landowners bearing the public taxes and dyke work. Aurelius Silvanus signed for the illiterate lessee, and the document was drawn up by Serenos in the 4th century AD.
Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop, probably a kind of vetch or chickling pea. The lessors are addressed as women landowners (geouchoi).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease). 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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