Long-term sublease of public land near Talei TM 43116Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptSeptember 22, 33 A.D.

[recto] […] […] year 9 (?) In the twentieth year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, month Sebastos 25, at Tebtynis in the division of Polemon of the Arsinoite nome. Polemon son of Psenobastis, aged about 45, with a scar on the right eyebrow, has leased to Polemis son of Petesouchos, aged about 25, with a scar on the forehead at the right, out of the public land plots which Polemon himself farms near Talei, 12 arouras of land, or however many they may be, in two parcels in the places called Baralipsis and Parembole, for ninety-three years and as an ancestral holding, from the present twentieth year. In return for which Polemis shall measure out each year to the state 20 artabas of wheat and the annual expenses that follow, and according to the two-thirds share of the […] […] for one month […] Polemis shall receive the seed given each year from the state, which also each year into the land and […] Let it therefore not be permitted to the lessees […] nor to perform liturgies. Signer for Polemon: Herodes son of Herodes, aged about 40, with a scar on the neck at the left, and also for the other. I, Polemon son of Psenobastis, acknowledge that I have leased to Polemis son of Petesouchos, out of the public land plots which I myself farm near Talei, 12 arouras of land, or however many they may be, in two parcels in the places called Baralipsis and Parembole, for ninety-three years from the present twentieth year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, for sowing with whatever crops the lessee chooses each year […] of wheat, artabas […] […] all […] the amount given […] as stated above. I, Herodes son of Herodes, wrote for him because he does not know letters. [verso] In Baralipsis and in Parembole