Application to Sublease Date CropMaron, son of Melankomas, and Eukrates, son of HerakleidesAPISmichigan.apis.1847(MiU)1847p.mich.12.6300163;12;630p.mich;12;6301229512295P.Mich.inv. 3161Application addressed by Maron, son of Melankomas, and Eukrates, son of Herakleides, to Herakleides, son of Pnepheros, by which they request the right to sublease from him two-thirds of the crop of a palm groveLocation: Ann ArborPub. status: Recto; Verso is blankGreek1 papyrus ; 9.5 x 28.8 cmComplete, but damaged along some folds and at the bottom; faded at places26Source of description: Recto
The first hand stylistically resembles the first hand of P.Mich. V, 266, from Tebtynis, and the contemporary hands in contracts from Oxyrhynchus. (Boak)
September 26, 38 A.D.UnknownHerakleides son of PnepherosMaron son of MelankomasEukrates son of HerakleidesGaius, Emperor
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To Herakleides, son of Pnepheros, from Maron, son of Melankomas, and Eukrates, son of Herakleides. We wish to lease two-thirds of the date crop which arrived at maturity in the present third year of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus and which you hold on lease. We promise to pay, for the whole, a rent of twenty-six drachmai of coined silver and . . . obols, and we will pay it in the month of Tybi of the same year, if it appears good to lease to us on the aforesaid terms.;Year 3 of Gaius Caesar Augustus, 29th of the month of Augustus.;Eukrates, son of Herakleides, 30 years old, with a scar on the lower part of the left cheek.;(2nd hand) I, Maron, son of Melankomas, have also submitted the aforesaid application. And we will pay one artaba of Syrian dates by the dromos-measure for dates.;Year 4 of Gaius Caesar Augustus, 29th of the month of Augustus.