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Lease of a vegetable garden with palms and sycamores at Arsinoe TM 9881Arsinoites, Ägypten16. Jan. 654

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Lease contract in which Aurelius Kosmas, an ox-driver living in the quarter of the Sacred Standards at Arsinoe, leases a vegetable garden with date palms and sycamores from Paulos, son of the late pagarch Stephanos, acting through his mother. It was drawn up at Arsinoe on Tybi 20 of the 12th indiction (16 January 654).

In English machine translation

[recto] † In the name of the Lord and Master Jesus Christ, our God and Saviour, and of our Lady the holy Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary, and of all the saints. Tybi 20, of the twelfth indiction, in Arsinoe, of the province of Arcadia. To the most magnificent Paulos, son of Stephanos son of Kyros of magnificent memory, former pagarch, through your mother […] the most magnificent, from the city of the Arsinoites, Aurelius Kosmas, your ox-driver, son of Apollos, from […] of the Arsinoite nome, now living here in the same city in the quarter of the Sacred Standards, greetings. I acknowledge that I have leased from you, out of the 10 1/2 arouras belonging to you, a vegetable garden of whatever area it is, together with the date palms and sycamore trees in it […] trees and every right, for as long a time as you wish, from the current crops of the thirteenth indiction […] [… lines lost …] [verso] [… 10 lines lost …]

The lease is 'for as long as you wish', a typical open-ended tenancy of the period. The 'Sacred Standards' (Hiera Signa) was a named city quarter of Arsinoe.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Landpacht). 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 · 16. Jan. 654 · Arsinoites, Ägypten

[r] † ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν καὶ τῆς δεσποίνης ἡμῶν τῆς ἁγίας θεοτόκου καὶ ἀειπαρθένου Μαρίας καὶ πάντων τῶν ἁγίων Τῦβι κ δωδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος ἐν Ἀρσινόῃ ἐπαρχίας Ἀρκαδίας. τῷ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτῳ Παύλῳ υἱῷ τοῦ τῆς μεγαλοπρεποῦς μν…