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Lease of a vineyard plot with customary gifts to the landowner TM 37293HermopolitesVI

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Fragmentary lease of a vineyard plot in the Hermopolite nome, in which an illiterate lessee undertakes to pay rent in new sieved grain delivered to the landowner's house in Hermopolis, to irrigate and dig the vineyard five times a year, and to give customary gifts of a piglet, a platter of foods and thirty pairs of loaves. It closes with a subscription by Aurelius Kyros son of Iakkobos writing for the lessee, and witness statements.

In English machine translation

[… ? lines lost …] […] […which rent I shall measure out in the] […] [month (?)] new, clean, sieved, by the Athenian measure, [annually without delay, and I shall deliver] the same rent to your house in Hermopolis with my own [animals and at my own expense, and] I shall carry out the water supply of your aforesaid [plot] […] their food and having hired, and I shall irrigate it in […] […]teen (?) without neglect, on condition that you, the landowner, receive […] [and of the] fruit of the trees and date palms there, and […] [for the manual] and all my viticultural work and care and […] [And I shall dig] the same vineyard plot five times each year without neglect. [And I shall provide each year by way of custom] one piglet and one platter full of various foods […] and thirty pairs of loaves without delay. The lease is valid. […] [I, the aforesaid, have leased] as stated above. I, Aurelius Kyros son of Iakkobos, from Hermopolis, having been asked, wrote on his behalf since he is illiterate. […] I witness the lease, having heard it from the lessor. † † Aurelius […] [I witness] having heard it from the lessor. † […] […]

The beginning, with the parties' names and the plot's description, is lost. The customary extras (piglet, platter of food, loaves) are typical of late antique leases.

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

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