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An offer to lease 2 arouras of catoecic land near Bakchias in the Arsinoite nome for three years at an annual rent of 10 artabas of wheat, signed by the lessee Isidorianos. It dates to the reign of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander, in the month of Hathyr, AD 221.
The beginning, including the names of lessor and addressee, is lost. Catoecic land was allotment land originally held by military settlers; returning it 'from flax-stubble' means in the state left after a flax harvest.
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.
[… ? lines lost …] βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ τὰς ὑπαρχούσας σοι περὶ κώμην Βακχιάδα κλήρου κατοικικοῦ ἀρούρας δύο ἐν τόπῳ κλήρου Μώρου λεγομένῳ ἐπὶ χρόνον ἐτῶν τριῶν , ἐκφορίου τοῦ παντὸς κατʼ ἔτος πυροῦ ἀρταβῶν δέκα μέτρωι ἑξαχοινίκου, καὶ ἐπιτελέσω τὰ γεωργικὰ ἔργα πάντα το…
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