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Offer to lease dry shore land at Soknopaiou Nesos TM 9374Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)26. Jan. - 24. Febr. 201

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An offer addressed to the royal scribe of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome by Tiaboulis son of Tiaboulis of Soknopaiou Nesos to lease 18 arouras of dry shore land near the village for two years. He asks to be exempt from extra charges and to have rent remitted for land that is unflooded or waterlogged; it was written in Mecheir of year 9 of Septimius Severus (AD 201).

In English machine translation

To […]on, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, division of Herakleides, from Tiaboulis son of Tiaboulis, from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos. I wish to lease for 2 years from the present 9th year, from the dry shore land around the same village in the 1st sphragis, 18 arouras lying in 2 plots, of which 10 arouras have as neighbours on the south a canal, on the north the desert, on the east a road, on the west dry shore land; and of the remaining 8 arouras the neighbours are on the south the boundary of the division of Herakleides (?) of Themistes, on the north, east and west dry shore land; at a rent each year of […] drachmas per aroura, on condition that nothing else is exacted from me on any account, from sheaf-transport […] or anything else; and if any land becomes unflooded or waterlogged, the rent […] shall be credited to me. If it seems good to lease […] […] 28 (?). I, Tiaboulis, have submitted this. I, Doro[…], wrote on behalf of him and of the guarantor Tesenouphis, as they are illiterate. […] at the office of the royal scribe. Year 9 of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus, Mecheir.

This is a lease offer to the state for unproductive 'dry shore land' (chersos aigialou), public land along the lake edge. The rent figure per aroura is lost.

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.

bgu.3.831

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 26. Jan. - 24. Febr. 201 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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