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End of a sharecropping lease in which three men, Aurelius Paulos, Serenos and Pinoution, lease land from a landowner, promising him half of the crop while they bear seed and cultivation costs and he pays the public taxes. Paulos signs for his two illiterate partners. It dates to the 4th century AD, probably from Hermopolis.
The opening with the parties and description of the land is lost; the landowner's name survives only as an ending in 'son of Ammonios'. The 'half of the crops' arrangement is a typical sharecropping (hemiseia) lease.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtung eines Feldes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] … […]ος Ἀμμωνίου ἀ[…] […]ειν ὧν ἐὰν αἱρῇ[…] […]παρέξομέν σοι τὴν ἡμίσειαν πάντων τῶν ἐκβησομένων καρπῶν, ἡμῶν ἐπιγιγνωσκόντων τά τε σπέρματα καὶ τὰ παντοῖα ἀναλώματα ἀπὸ κατασπορᾶς μέχρι συνκομιδῆς καὶ αὐτῆς, τῶν δημοσίων παντοίων τελεσμάτων ὄντων πρὸς σὲ τὸν γεοῦχον. ἡ μίσθω…
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