Ten-year lease of land for gold rent at Ophis TM 34799Ophis (Hermopolites)V - VI

Fragment of a ten-year land lease from the village of Ophis in the Hermopolite nome, in which a farmer undertakes to pay a yearly gold rent for plots bordered on the west by land of a church, with the rent halved if the land is not irrigated. The verso docket identifies it as a lease by a farmer from Ophis. It dates to the 5th or 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

The carat (keration) was a fraction of the gold solidus (1/24); the rent of half a solidus minus 2 1/2 carats was reckoned by the Hermopolis weight standard. Well-irrigated (symbrochos) and unirrigated (abrochos) refer to whether the Nile flood reached the land.

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