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Five-year lease of arable land near Nagokis TM 35461HermopolitesV

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Fragmentary lease in which a tenant takes on 1 1/2 arouras of arable land near the village of Nagokis in the Hermopolite nome for five years, starting from the eleventh indiction. The rent is 5 artabas of wheat a year, halved if the land is not flooded, payable in Epeiph; the lessor Flavius Ioannes signs at the end.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] I wish voluntarily and of my own free will to lease from you for a period of five years, reckoned from the crops of the eleventh indiction, with God's help, and that year itself, the 1 1/2 arouras of unirrigated arable land belonging to her, lying under the watch of those from the village of Nagokis in the Hermopolite nome, for sowing and storing of whatever crops I choose, at a rent for this per year, in the case of irrigated land, of 5 artabas of wheat by the receiving measure of Athenaios your steward, total 5 artabas of wheat; in the case of unirrigated land, which may it not happen, I shall provide half of the same rent, in the month of Epeiph each year without delay. The lease is valid and guaranteed, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. ☧ I, Flavius Ioannes, have leased out. ☧

The land is described as belonging to 'her', probably a woman named in the lost opening, though Flavius Ioannes signs as lessor. 'Irrigated' and 'unirrigated' refer to whether the land was reached by the Nile flood.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Landpachtvertrag). 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 · V · Hermopolites

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