An offer to lease, addressed to a landowning woman acting with her full brother Apollonios as guardian, for eight arouras of catoecic land near Hephaistias in the Arsinoite nome for four years. The lessee, son of Orsenouphis and described as a Persian of the descent, promises the farm work and payment of a wheat rent in Pauni. It dates to year 14 of Trajan (AD 110/111).
In English machine translation
[…] … with as guardian her brother
[by the same father] and the same mother, Apollonios
[…] son of Orsenouphis son of Satabous, Persian
[of the descent]. I wish to lease from you
for four years from the present fourteenth [year] the eight arouras of catoecic allotment belonging to you near the village
of Hephaistias
[or however many they may be] in two parcels, at a rent for the
[whole per] year; I shall receive jointly from you
[seed] at 1 artaba of wheat per aroura;
of the whole, 34 artabas of wheat by the six-choinix measure of the granary of …
[free from deductions] and from risk, and I shall carry out the […]
… all the agricultural work,
the embankment work, irrigation, weeding and drainage, all at my own expense,
and at the proper season doing no damage, [sowing the arouras] each year for the first
[three] years with whatever I choose, and in the last year
[…] and I shall pay [you] the yearly rents in the month of Pauni on the threshing floor of the lands,
and after the term I shall hand over the arouras
… as to me by you
… on the foregoing terms,
[and of] all the public dues, except the public [dues] … and being my concern
[if you agree to] lease on these terms.
… about 32 years old, with a scar on the left hand.
[Year 14 of the Emperor] Caesar Nerva
[Trajan] Augustus Germanicus Dacicus,
… …
'Persian of the descent' is a legal status label in Roman Egypt, not an ethnic description. The rent figure of 34 artabas apparently refers to the total, but surrounding text is 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.