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Conclusion of a land lease from Eupolis to Kleopatra TM 7822247 BCE – 227 BCE

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The closing section of a Ptolemaic lease of land in which Kleopatra rents land from Eupolis for 30 artabas of wheat, with penalty clauses and a provision for royal hindrance. Six or seven witnesses, mostly military settlers, are listed, followed by the start of a second copy of the contract dated to year 4 of Ptolemy III.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] to Eupolis [...] will measure out free from fraud with a just measure [...] [...] Kleopatra will pay back to Eupolis [...] [...] crops into the [...] [...] according to what he has leased. If he does not [guarantee it] according to what is written, let Kleopatra pay to Eupolis a penalty of 100 silver drachmas, [unless] some royal hindrance occurs. And if some royal hindrance occurs, let Kleopatra pay back to Eupolis the 30 artabas of wheat; and if she does not pay them back, [let her pay] the value of each artaba of wheat, [...] silver drachmas, and let Eupolis have the right of execution against Kleopatra, [exacting it] according to the ordinance. This contract is valid wherever it is produced. Witnesses: Polyainos, Cyrenean, private soldier; Th[...] decurion, both of the troop of Zoilos; Diokles son of Hippolysos [...] [...] son of Apollonios, Hesperite; Nikanor son of Euagoras, Ba[rcaean of the Epigone] [...] [In the reign of Ptolemy] son of Ptol[emy and Arsinoe, the Brother-Sister Gods, year] four, in the time of the priest [...] [...]

The regnal formula naming Ptolemy son of the Brother-Sister Gods points to year 4 of Ptolemy III Euergetes (244/3 BC), though the catalogue keeps a wider range. The 'royal hindrance' clause excused the lessee if the crown requisitioned or obstructed use of the land.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease [year 4 or Eurgetes or Philopator]). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

Lease [year 4 or Eurgetes or Philopator]

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · Hib. 91 · 247 BCE – 227 BCE

Conclusion of a lease of land from Eupolis to Cleopatra, at a rent of 30 artabas of corn. The names of six or seven witnesses are included, as well as part of the protocol of what was probably a duplicate copy on the same papyrus

p.hib.1.91

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 247 BCE – 227 BCE

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…]Εὐπόλει […]ἄδολον μετρήσει δικαίαι κ[…] […]ἀποδώσει Κλεοπάτρα Εὐπόλει […]… […]…[…]…[…]…[…]…σας καρποὺς εἰς τὸ …[…] […]μο…[…]…ν…[…]ε…ν καθʼ ἃ μεμίσθωκεν. ἐὰν δὲ μὴ βεβαιώσηι κατὰ τὰ γεγραμμένα ἀποτεισάτω Κλεοπάτρα Εὐπόλει ἐπίτιμον ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ἑκατὸν …