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Lease of a monastery vineyard at Phbu for ten years TM 36871HermopolitesVII (?)

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A ten-year lease from the Hermopolite nome, probably 7th century AD, in which a man rents a vineyard belonging to a monastery near the village of Phbu, in the place called Siklous. He undertakes all the labour, and the wine is split equally between the monastery and him with his farmer partner.

In English machine translation

[…] […] under the supervision of those from the village of Phbu in the Hermopolite nome. I acknowledge that I have of my own free will and choice leased from you for a period of ten years, reckoned from the crops now in the fields of the eleventh indiction which is, with God, about to begin, and thereafter, the vineyard plot belonging to the same holy monastery, planted with living vines, of however many arouras it comprises, together with a complete cistern and a water-wheel and a cattle-shed and wooden apparatus and a reed-bed and every right, lying in the place called Siklous under the supervision of those from the same village of Phbu in the Hermopolite nome, for my own manual labour and weeding and setting up of reeds and reed-work and the fences of square (?) […] and digging around five times a year, and to apply all diligence and goodwill on the same estate blamelessly and irreproachably, on condition that the same holy monastery receives half of all the wine that will be produced, and that I together with the farmer receive the other half in return for the labours we perform; and to sow the small plots […] lying to the east of the same vineyard and that I receive their produce without rents. And I shall provide each year the customary jars (?) of the vintages […]. And I may not withdraw from the […] service before the completion of the same ten-year period […] with the help of the laws, our helpers […] not to transgress […] The lease is valid (?) […] […]

The lease is a sharecropping arrangement: the rent is half the wine produced rather than a fixed payment. The final 'Κυρ(ία)' is probably the start of the standard validity clause ('this lease is valid').

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtvertrag über Kloster - Rebenland). 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 · VII (?) · Hermopolites

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