OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

9.7 x 9.6 cm.

Lines:

17

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

The upper part and a margin of 13-18 letters at the left side are missing

Content

Date:

96 A.D.

Origin:

Kerkeesis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Athenaion

Title / Type of text:

Application for lease of land

Content:

Application concerning a renewal for five years of a (sub?) lease of one or more parcels of (public?) land.

Subjects:

Agriculture Crops Application Lease Land Ownership Payment

Named people:

Athenaion [...] son of Heraklides Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, emperor

Named places:

Kerkeesis

English translation:

[To ... son of Heraklides, from Athenaion ... I wish to lease from you for five years ... arouras ...] to be sown with wheat at the previously paid rent of ... artabae of wheat (inclusive of 3 artabae of seed corn), measured by the ... choenix of ... and for the term of five years a yearly (extra gift of) ... of leaven ... and altogether without any charge or risk. And I will perform all the proper agricultural operations on the arourae annually at my own expense, doing no damage, and I will deliver the rent in produce each year in the month Payni at the threshingfloor, the measuring to be done in common, and I will pay the rent in money in the month ..., the yearly (taxes for?) transportation of the state grain to the village of Kerkesis to be born by me Athenaion. And after the period I will surrender the arourae free and just as I received them. And you will guarantee the lease for me on the terms aforesaid against all the State charges, if you consent to the lease.I ... son of Heraklides, have let the aforesaid arourae as aforesaid. The 15th year of the Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus.

Provenance:

Kerkeesis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased from M.Nahman, Cairo, Feb. 18, 1929

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 49, 1973, 45-50
  SB: XIV 11431

Further Literature

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