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Lease of arable land at Aphrodite from Apollos son of Dioskoros TM 36922Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)1. Hälfte VI

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Fragment of a one-year land lease from Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, in which a tenant whose name is lost leases from Apollos son of Dioskoros all his arouras in the village plain, inherited from his parents, for the sowing of a sixth indiction. The rent is a gold solidus, less some carats, together with grain measured by the landlord's measure.

In English machine translation

[…] To Apollos son of Dioskoros, from the village of Aphrodite of the Antaiopolite nome, greetings. I acknowledge that I have leased from you for a period of one year, for the sowing of the crop, God willing, of the coming sixth indiction, the entire arouras belonging to you, lying in the plain of the same village of Aphrodite, [of the holding of] […] in the locality of Phoneus (?), however many they are, with all their rights, according to their boundaries, which came [to you from] your parents and various […] belonging to you […], on condition that I cultivate them, and I will provide the rent [at a fixed rate] of 1 gold solidus less [… carats] by the goldsmiths' standard, and […] of clean grain […] by your measure, without dispute […] […]

Apollos son of Dioskoros is the father of the well-known poet and notary Dioskoros of Aphrodite. The solidus 'less carats' formula reflects the practice of paying gold coins short by a set number of carats, reckoned by the goldsmiths' standard.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease. Land). 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 · 1. Hälfte VI · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

[… ? lines lost …] ἈπολλῶτιΔιοσκόρου ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ Ἀνταιοπολίτου νομοῦ χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ μεμισθῶσθαι παρὰ σοῦ πρὸς ἐνιαύσιον χρόνον κατασπορᾶς γενήματος σὺν Θεῷμελλούσης ἕκτης ἰνδικτίονος τὰς ὑπαρχούσας σοι ὁλοκλήρους ἀρούρας διακειμένας ἐν πεδιάδι τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης Ἀφροδί…