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Lease of a catoecic holding near Paimis TM 5255Oxyrhynchos (Oxyrhynchites, Ägypten)26. Juli 44 v.Chr.

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Beginning of a lease in which Theon son of Theon, a catoecic cavalryman, leases his 30-aroura holding near Paimis to Apollonios also called Harbichis, a Persian of the Epigone, half to be sown with wheat and half with arakos, for rent in wheat. It was drawn up at Oxyrhynchus in year 8 of Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy (XIII).

In English machine translation

In the reign of Cleopatra and Ptolemy, gods Philopatores, year 8, the other items of the formula as written in Alexandria, month Gorpiaios and Epeiph 27, in the city of the Oxyrhynchi in the Thebaid. Theon son of Theon, of the catoecic cavalrymen, has leased to Apollonios also called Harbichis, son of Apollonios also called Harbichis, Persian of the Epigone, both of the street of Cleopatra Aphrodite, the holding (kleros) of 30 arouras belonging to him near Paimis, on condition that he sow half with wheat for the ninth year, and sow the other half with arakos as a crop to be cut (?), at a rent for each aroura, for that under wheat, of 6 artabas of hard wheat free of barley, and for that under arakos, of wheat likewise hard and free of barley, […] artabas […]. And Apollonios acknowledges that he has received from Theon for seed […] [… lines lost …]

Arakos is a leguminous fodder plant (a vetch or chickling) with no exact English equivalent. 'Persian of the Epigone' is a legal status designation of the Ptolemaic period.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease of Catoecic Land). 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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p.oxy.14.1629

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

βασιλευόντων Κλεοπάτρας καὶ Πτολεμαίου θεῶν Φιλοπατόρων ἔτους ὀγδόου, τὰ δʼ ἄλλα τῶν κοινῶν ὡς ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείαι γράφεται, μηνὸς Γορπιαίου καὶ Ἐπεὶφ κζ ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει τῆς Θηβαΐδος. ἐμίσθωσεν Θέων Θέωνος τῶν κατοίκων ἱππέων Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι καὶ Ἁρβίχει Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ καὶ Ἁρβίχιος …