Petition about unpaid wheat rent for leased private land TM 3388Magdola (Arsinoites)Ende III v.Chr.

A petition addressed to Alexandros, probably an official, from a landholder who had leased 44 arouras of his privately sown land to Amenneus and associates for the royal rents plus 88 artabas of wheat. The tenants paid only part of what was due, and he asks that the village headman Horos compel them to pay the remaining 53 artabas from the threshed grain. It dates to the late 3rd century BC, from Magdola in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

The arithmetic of the figures (88 owed, 35 paid, 53 remaining) suggests the 65 artabas ordered for the sitologos were part of the sum. "Idiosporos" land is land sown privately by the holder, here sublet to tenants.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Paiement de fermage). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.