Lease of cleruchic land at Tholthis for one year TM 4000Tholthis (Oxyrhynchites)215 - 214 v.Chr.

[… lines lost …] … (priestess) of Arsinoe [daughter of Sosibios], in the month Peritios, at Tholthis in the Oxyrhynchite nome. Theochrestos, Thracian, of the men of Philon, private soldier (?), has leased to Simias son of Demetrios, Athenian of the Epigone, for one year, [for one] sowing [and harvest, from] the sowing of the ninth year, whose crops belong to the tenth year, the remainder of the cleruchic holding of […] […] of the whole, which is 5 arouras or however many it may turn out to be by survey, with seed, free of risk, at a rent of 7 1/2 artabas of wheat for each aroura. Theochrestos shall give him [seed for] each aroura, 1 artaba of wheat, at the time of need. Simias shall pay Theochrestos the [stipulated] rent, when the rest of the grain of the village is measured into the royal granary in the tenth year, in grain clean and unadulterated, grown on the land, by the royal choinix measure, with fair measurement, and shall carry it to the royal granary at Tholthis at his own expense. If […] […] for each (artaba) of wheat … drachmas, and Theochrestos shall have the right of execution [against Simias], according to the ordinance. Theochrestos shall have control of the crops until he has [recovered] what is his. [Theochrestos shall guarantee to Simias the] land and the crops sown in it according to the terms of the lease. If [he does not guarantee it as written, Theochre]stos shall pay Simias a penalty of …hundred drachmas of silver. [This] contract [shall be valid wherever it is produced. Witnesses:]