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Lease of an aroura of arable land at Tertembythis TM 39171Hermopolites1. Hälfte VII

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End of a lease of sown land near the village of Tertembythis in the Hermopolite nome, in which the tenant promises an annual rent of 7 1/2 artabas of wheat and barley, half each, delivered to the landowner's house in Hermopolis in Epeiph, plus customary gifts of cheeses, sheaves and a jar of vegetables. It was written for the illiterate tenant by Aurelius Zacharias and witnessed by men of Hermopolis, in the first half of the 7th century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] [in the plain of the village of Ter]tembythis in the Hermopolite [nome] […] and its neighbours wherever they may be […] for sowing and storing of crops [whatever I choose, at a rent] for it each year of wheat-and-barley [half and half, of] seven and a half [artabas], that is wheat 3 3/4 artabas [and barley 3 3/4 artabas, which] rent, new, good, clean, sieved, [by your Athenian measure,] I will pay and deliver to your house in Hermopolis with my own animals and at my own expense in the month of Epeiph of each year without excuse. And I will also provide each year by way of customary gift ten cheeses and ten bundles of ears of grain and one jar of turnip(?). The present lease is valid and guaranteed, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. † Aurelius […] the aforesaid, I have leased as aforesaid. † Aurelius […] Zacharias from Hermopolis, having been asked, I wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters. † † Leontios […] [from Hermopolis, I witness the lease,] having heard it from the [party making it. † † Aurelius] […] from [Hermopolis,] I witness [the lease, having heard it from the party making it.] […] [verso] [† Lease] […] from Hermopolis, Phoust[…]

The 'customary' extras (cheeses, sheaves, a jar) were small gifts in kind typical of Byzantine leases. Lepsane is a leafy vegetable, perhaps a kind of turnip or charlock; the land is described as one aroura in the catalogue title, though the extent is lost in the surviving text.

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 eine Arure Saatland). 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 VII · Hermopolites

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