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Fragmentary offer to lease land, apparently a date-palm and olive grove near Philadelpheia in the Arsinoite nome, for three years, addressed through an estate manager. The rent includes 160 drachmas a year plus payments in dried dates, olives and reeds, with deliveries in sacks by the lessees' own donkeys.
The phrontistes was the manager of a large private estate. The 8th year of the lease start corresponds to AD 167/8 under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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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