A three-year lease of 20 arouras of catoecic land near Philopator Apias, let by the minor Pekysis, his guardian uncle, and his two sisters with their guardians, for a rent of wheat per aroura plus tax and granary charges. It was drawn up at Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum in AD 69.
In English machine translation
Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Augustus Vespasian, month of Sebastos, fifteenth day, in Soknopaiou Nesos of the division of Herakleides of the Arsinoite nome. There have leased out Pekysis son of Harpagathes, about 13 years old, without distinguishing marks, with his guardian, his paternal uncle Panephrimmis the elder, son of Horos, about 62 years old, with a scar on the forehead on the left, and the sisters of Pekysis by the same father, Stotoetis, about 40 years old, with a scar on the right wrist, and Herieus, about 18 years old, with a scar in the middle of the forehead, with their guardians (kyrioi), both Paopis son of Herieus, husband of Stotoetis, about 55 years old, with a scar on the little finger of the left hand, and Papeis son of Stotoetis, Persian of the Epigone, about 35 years old, with a scar below the right shin, the 20 arouras, or however many they may be, of catoecic allotment land belonging to them near Philopator Apias in the division of Themistos, in two parcels, for three years from the present year, at a total rent per aroura, including seed, of 1 artaba of wheat; for the fiftieth-tax on wheat and […] 2 artabas per year, and for granary rent 1 artaba, all by the four-choinix dromos measure of the granary of Synthis; the rent to be paid in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor of the allotment, free of deductions and risk. The lessee shall not be permitted to abandon the lease within the period, but shall carry out all the agricultural work, the embankments, irrigations, weedings and siphon-work (?), the lessors giving to the lessee […] for the fallowing of the allotment 48 silver drachmas, and to be with […] concerning the embankment of the canal […]
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[…] the lessee shall pay […] half of the allotment in vegetables (?) […] the remaining half […] and after the period the lessees shall hand back the allotment as he received it […], and the taxes of the allotment […] all being the responsibility of the lessors […]
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Catoecic land was allotment land originally held by military settlers. The lessee's name is not preserved, and the closing clauses are badly damaged.
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.