Lease of catoecic land near Sepho TM 5254Oxyrhynchos24. Okt. 73 v.Chr.

[recto] In the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra also called Tryphaina, gods Philopatores Philadelphoi, year 9, and the other matters of common form as written in Alexandria, month Apellaios and Phaophi 15, at Oxyrhynchus city of the Thebaid. Sarapion son of Apollonios, Macedonian, of the katoikoi cavalrymen, has leased to Apollonios also called Pan[…], son of Ischyrion also called Nechthenibis, Persian of the Epigone, both of the street of Cleopatra Aphrodite, from his allotment (kleros) which he holds near Sepho, fifteen arouras for the ninth year, on condition that he sow three arouras in the allotment of Diokles with wheat, and of the twelve arouras in the allotment of Philon, half with barley and the other half with lentils, at a rent for each aroura, by survey, of four artabas of the grain given for sowing. And Apollonios acknowledges that he has received from Sarapion for seed and the other expenses of sowing, in good condition, 7 1/2 artabas of barley and 7 1/2 artabas of lentils, and for the cutting of rushes on the land, not to be repaid, 1,500 drachmas of copper, free of risk and not subject to deduction for any risk. As regards the rents, apart from the taxes, if Apollonios is made to pay anything to the royal treasury or for anything else in any way on behalf of Sarapion or of the land, let him deduct it from the rents; and let Sarapion be master of the crops until he has received the rents, and […] […] [verso] Year 9, lease […]