Fragment of a sharecropping lease of irrigated land TM 36181AntaiopolitesVith Century AD

Fragment of a sharecropping lease of land from the Antaiopolite nome in the 6th century AD, part of the archive of Dioskoros. The tenant undertakes to irrigate the land from a cistern and do all the farm work with his own animals and at his own expense, with the harvest split in halves between himself and the landowners.

In English machine translation

Much of the text is restored from the standard formulas of such leases. The text is also published as P.Cair.Masp. II 67237, and the object description notes the misspelled word for sowing.

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