Offer to lease one aroura for flax cultivation on a sharecropping basis TM 45292Oxyrhynchos13. Okt. 316

[recto] To Aurelius Themistokles also called Dioskourides, gymnasiarch, former prytanis, councillor of the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Cornelius (?) his assistant, from the Aurelii Leonides son of Theon and Dioskoros son of Ammonios, both from the same city. We voluntarily undertake to lease, for the present 11th and 9th year only, from the land belonging to you near the Iseion Panga in the dyke-district of Nesla, held in partnership with your brother Leukadios, 1 aroura for sowing with flax, and instead of rent to provide to you the landowner one half share of the flax produced from the land, while we the lessees, in return for the cultivation we carry out and all the seed and expenses we provide, shall have the remaining half share and the whole of the flaxseed, all free of every risk, the public charges on the land being the responsibility of you the landowner, who shall have control of the crops until you receive what is owed. If our undertaking is confirmed, we shall of necessity deliver the half share of the flax produced, retted at the pond, without delay at the proper time, the right of execution being yours against us, who are mutually guarantors for payment, as is fitting. The undertaking is valid, and having been asked the formal question we gave our assent. In the consulship of Caecinius Sabinus and Vettius Rufinus, the most illustrious, Phaophi 16. I, Aurelius Themistokles also called Dioskourides, through me Cornelius (?) the assistant, have received a copy of this. If a higher offer is made, it will be accepted. [verso] Of Leonides and Dioskoros, assessors of tow.