Fragment of a two-year lease of an estate in the eastern plain TM 37355Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)VI

Fragment of a lease in which the lessee acknowledges leasing for two years a whole estate with a cistern, dwelling, tower, chaff-store, orchard, vegetable garden and trees in the eastern plain. The fixed annual rent is 5 artabas of clean wheat per aroura. It comes from Aphrodito in the Antaiopolite nome, 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

The rent clause "in a full and an unflooded year" guarantees the rent even if the Nile flood fails. The word read as thuia trees is uncertain, and the beginning and end of the contract are lost.

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