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Offer to lease the olive crop of a grove near Lagis TM 9724Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)142 - 143

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An offer by Pasion, from the Horion's Hierakeion quarter of Ptolemais Euergetis, to lease from a woman named Ptolemais the olive crop of her grove of about 16 5/6 arouras near Lagis, for a rent paid in olive oil and olives. It dates to the sixth year of Antoninus Pius (AD 142-143).

In English machine translation

To Ptolemais Py[…] from Pasion son of […], from the quarter of Horion's Hierakeion. I wish to lease from you the crops of olives standing and fallen in the present sixth year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, from the olive grove belonging to you […] called […], near Lagis in the division of Themistes, of 16 1/2 1/3 arouras, at a rent of 3 metretai of new, pure, unadulterated, filtered olive oil […] and 2 artabas of select olives, and an extra measure for each metretes […]; and I will do the shaking down (of the olives) by means of forked sticks and reeds, and I will close up (the grove) by the 30th of the month Hadrianos, causing no damage; and I will measure out the oil and the olives on the estate […] if it seems good to you to lease as aforesaid. Year 6 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus […]

Though catalogued as a sale of a crop, the text is phrased as an offer to lease the year's olive harvest. Hadrianos was a local honorific month name corresponding to Choiak.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sale of a Crop). 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 · 142 - 143 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

Πτολεμαίδι Πυ[…] παρὰ Πασίωνος τοῦ δεῖνος ἀπὸ ἀμφόδου Ὡρίωνος Ἱερακείου· βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ τοὺς ἐπικειμένους καὶ ἐκπεπτωκότας εἰς τὸ ἐνεστός ἕκτον ἔτος Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ἐλαικοὺς καρποὺς τοῦ ὑπάρχοντός σοι ἐλαιῶνος […]… λεγομένου περὶ Λαγίδα τῆς Θεμίστου …