Arrangement for a vineyard estate held for the memory of a deceased brother TM 36546Aphrodites kome (Antaiopolites)c.AD 525-50

[... lines lost ...] [...] ... [...] [...] ... [...] signing (?) [...] [...] ... of the evident (?) [...] ... affairs, and he appointed me over [...] by the testamentary document drawn up by him, and there was assigned to me by my aforesaid brother the estate in the allotment of Psineios with all its rights, and his other arouras lying in the allotment of Nempkes, and all their revenues, to administer justly and to spend the [...] revenue on the holy offerings and love-feasts and [...] to pay his public taxes and the debts for the whole time of my life, in keeping with the faith of his written wish, and to be [...] by me without neglect. And since a little while ago the aforesaid estate was ravaged and abandoned at a time of scarcity and hardship, I was unable to bear the burden of working it myself and the public taxes and the care of the service of the memory of my aforesaid most blessed brother and the debts, in hard and unwatered times, above all with my old age and weakness persisting; and I resolved, as being more advantageous, to choose capable men for the necessary and pious work, according to the power granted to me by my aforesaid most blessed brother Hermauos; and I found the most honourable and most compassionate Besarion son of Dioskoros and Apollos his brother, and I asked them [...] with tears [...] and great sighs, and they [...] have done, so that the holy memory of my aforesaid brother should not be abandoned; and they were able, God willing, and they acquired and planted the aforesaid estate in the name of my aforementioned brother with newly planted vines, from their own labours and sweat and blood, by my wish [...] ... and [...] lawful [... lines lost ...]