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An offer by Petheus son of Anchophis and Orsenouphis to lease from Aphrodite, acting with her husband Syros as guardian, the olive harvest of her property near Psenarpsenesis for the 14th year of Hadrian. The rent is to be paid in kind, 40 metretai of fresh strained olive oil plus a surcharge per measure and select olives.
The provenance at Karanis is uncertain. The epichyma was an extra quantity added to each measure of oil as a surcharge; 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 (catalogued as Pachtangebot auf Früchte). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ἀφροδείτῃ Πτολλίωνος μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ ἀνδρὸς Σύρου τοῦ Ὡρίωνος παρὰ Πεθέως τοῦ Ἀγχώφεως καὶ Ὀρσενούφεως τοῦ Με… …μι…ς· βουλόμεθα μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ ἐξ ἀλληλεγγύης τοὺς ἐλαϊκοὺς καρποὺς τοῦ ὑπάρχοντός σοι περὶ Ψεναρψενῆσιν τόπῳ […]λαλεις λεγομένῳ ἐκπεπτωκότας εἰς τὸ ἐνεστὸς ιδ ἔτ…
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