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Sublease of public land at Herakleia for growing fodder TM 9572Herakleia (Arsinoites)27. Dez. 162 - 25. Jan. 163

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A sublease contract in which Sotas, a farmer of public land at Herakleia in the Arsinoite nome, leases part of the state land he cultivates at a place called Tberbis to a woman named Thases, acting with her husband Stotoetis as guardian, for one year to grow fodder. He acknowledges having received the rent in advance and guarantees the lease.

In English machine translation

[In the third year of Imperator] Caesar Marcus [Aurelius Antoninus] Augustus and I[mperator Caesar] Lucius Aurelius [Verus Augustus], in the month of Dystros […] Tybi […], [at Herakleia] of the division of Themistes [of the Arsinoite] nome. Sotas son of (?) […] son of Satabous, from the village of Herakleia, aged about 35, with a scar on the right forearm, acknowledges to Thases daughter of Anchophis, aged about 35, with a scar on the left foot, with her husband Stotoetis son of Horos, aged about 40, without distinguishing marks, as guardian, that he, the acknowledging party, has leased to her for only the present 3rd year of Antoninus and Verus the lords Augusti, out of the public land which he farms around the village of Herakleia, in the place called Tberbis, […] arouras […] by the 96-cubit measuring cord, for sowing with green fodder for cutting and for drying, and that he has received in advance the price of the rents immediately in full, and that he, the acknowledging party, will guarantee […] and […]

The lessor is himself a cultivator of state land (demosia ge), so this is effectively a sublease. The fodder (chortos) was to be cut green and also dried as hay.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtvertrag über Staatsland). 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 · 27. Dez. 162 - 25. Jan. 163 · Herakleia (Arsinoites)

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