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Fragment of an offer to lease farmland in the Arsinoite nome. The applicants undertake to sow any crop except safflower, to pay the yearly rent in kind in Pauni at the village threshing floor, and to return the land clean of weeds at the end of the lease. It is dated Thoth 1 of a year of Antoninus, probably between AD 169 and 176.
The lease offer closes with the standard phrase 'if it seems good to you to lease', addressed to the landowner. 'Antoninus' here probably refers to Marcus Aurelius, which fits the suggested date.
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 Land). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] […]ε…[…]π[…] […]… οἷς ἐὰν αἱρώμεθα γένεσι πλὴν κνήκου· τὸ δὲ κατʼ ἔτος ἐκφόριον ἀποδώσομεν ἐν μηνὶ Παῦνι ἐφʼ ἅλω τῆς προκειμένης κώμης μέτρῳ ὑμῶν τῶν […]περὶ Θερμουθ…νο, καὶ μετὰ τὸν χρόνον παραδώσομεν τὸ ἔδαφος ἀπὸ συνκομιδῆς καθαρὸν ἀπὸ θρύου καλάμου ἀγρώστεω…
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