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Offer to lease one aroura of grain land at Philadelphia TM 9527Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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An offer to lease addressed by Aurelius Paseis son of Tourbon of Philadelphia to Aurelius Gerontios, an honourably discharged veteran, for one aroura of grain land near the village for two years. The rent is 2 artabas of wheat per year, payable in Pauni at the metropolis, with the owner bearing the public charges.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our lords Constantius and Maximianus, Caesars. To Aurelius Gerontios son of Sarapion, veteran honourably discharged, from Aurelius Paseis son of Tourbon, from the village of Philadelphia. I wish to lease from you the one aroura of grain land belonging to you near the same village, or however much it may be, for a period of two years from the sowing of the present year, at a rent for the aroura each year of 2 artabas of wheat, and it shall not be permitted […] the […] […] […] of the aroura […] it is proper, at my own expense at the due seasons, doing no damage whatever. And I will pay the yearly rent in the month of Pauni […] at the metropolis by the four-choinix measure, all public charges being the responsibility of you the owner, and after the period I will hand over the aroura clean and in the condition in which I received it, if it seems good to you to lease it. And […] […]

The consulship of the Caesars Constantius and Galerius Maximianus fell in AD 294 and again in 297; no HGV date was supplied. An aroura is an Egyptian land measure of about 0.68 acres (0.275 ha).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtangebot). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

ὑπατείας τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ Καισάρων Αὐρηλίῳ Γεροντίῳ Σαραπίωνος οὐετρανῷ τῶν ἐντίμως ἀπολελυμένων παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Πασεῖτος Τούρβωνος ἀπὸ κώμης Φιλαδελφίας. βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ τὴν ὑπάρχουσάν σοι περὶ τὴν αὐτὴν κώμην σιτικὴν ἄρουραν μίαν ἢ ὅση ἐὰν …