Lease of grain land at Philadelphia and Hephaistias TM 9417Philadelphia (Arsinoites)6. Aug. 212

[…], son of […]tor (?) and Theanous, from the village of Philadelphia in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, to Trebellia Thaisareion, acting without a guardian according to the customs of the Romans by the right of children, greetings. I acknowledge that I have leased from you for a period of four years from the coming 21st year the 2 arouras of grain land belonging to you near the aforesaid village of Philadelphia, from a catoecic allotment, and near Hephaistias 1 1/2 1/4 aroura of grain land, at a rent each year for the 3 1/2 1/4 arouras together, free of all deductions and expense and without any allowance, of 8 artabas of wheat, which rent I shall pay you without fail each year on the threshing floor in the month of Pauni, clean, unadulterated, free of earth and barley, sifted, by the measure called the triodos; all the farming work and public charges and every surcharge or anything else being my responsibility, the lessee, in the places … of the lease, for the period, I carrying off the produce for my own use, after first supplying you the yearly wheat rent duly as stated; it not being permitted to me to abandon the lease nor to you to expel me within the period, at the completion of which I shall hand over the land to you clear of stubble and every weed, and the […] [… 1 line lost …] […] under my subscription. Year 20 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Parthicus (?) Germanicus Maximus Britannicus Maximus Pius Augustus, Mesore 13. (2nd hand) I, K[…]on, have leased as aforesaid.