Report concerning the tenure of certain pieces of property in the Hermopolite nome. Their ownership was vested in the government, probably in some cases through confiscation.
Translation: (Col. III) And the several plots in accordance with the survey-list presented in Hathyr of the 12th year by Noumenios the agent; that which was previously drawn up by Orpheus … Starting on the south of the southern road … adjoining on the east is the pottery formerly belonging to Lepton and leased to Tothes (according to an agreement made) in the 24th year which is also the 1st year …, of which it was reported that a lease was made in the 3rd year through Tothes son of Thothes son of Hermesion of Hermopolis, registered in the West Guardhouse quarter and resident at the village Somolo, and Amenneus son of Petepsais of Sesoncha in the Mochite toparchy, resident at the said Somolo, who took over, for 7 months from the 1st of the month Mecheir of the 3rd year until the 5th intercalary day of the said year and for 3 years from Thoth 1 of the 4th year, the newly fitted pottery at Somolo together with all furniture and with stones in good order, and supplied with everything including two potter's stools (?) and as many doors in position as the aforesaid pottery and its furniture need, and with keys and windlass for watering and well for the pottery, at the rent of the aforesaid 7 months of … pots, and from the 4th year for the remaining period of 3 years at the yearly rent of 1… pots, all of which they shall deliver every year at the drying place of the pottery in good order, being of winter manufacture and of the pattern of the Oxyrhynchite potteries of the god; and after the yearly rent they shall further deliver at the price … 2000 pots in good order of the aforesaid pattern, which … shall receive. They shall also be provided with the vacant space surrounding the pottery on the south for digging earth, porous clay and sand, they themselves doing the digging and the transport of the same to the pottery at their own expense. They shall further receive in the aforesaid period of 7 months an advance without interest of 640 silver drachmas in three installments … (Here the papyrus breaks off)