Lease [149-150 AD ?] Ptolemaios, son of Diodoros APIS columbia.apis.p293 (NNC)aaa1217 p.col.10.260 0094;10;260 p.col;10;260 10560 10560 Col.inv. 15 Application by Ptolemaios to lease 7 arouras of katoikic land in two lots from Chaireas son of Isidoros Written along the fibers; the back is blank 28 lines of writing in a fast cursive hand; the partially legible dating formula is by a second, faster hand The duration and the date of the beginning of the loan are not stated The lessee is well-known and was a man of some means In Greek 1papyrus, with the bottom portion very damaged ; 9.5 x 19.8 cm 149 CE – 150 CE

Purchased by Columbia University from M. Nahman through H.I. Bell, November 1925; no. 24 (IV.6) in Bell's inventory

 APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent. English In Greek Lease of land Papyri
To Chaireas son of Isidoros, one of the former kosmetai and former gymnasiarchs, from Ptolemaios son of Diodoros also known as Dioskoros. I wish to lease from you the five arouras which belong to you near the village of Argias from a katoikic allotment and the two arouras which belong to you near the village of Apias from a katoikic allotment, all being (held) in common and undivided from the fourteen arouras or however many there may be, the rent as a whole for all the arouras being fourteen artabas free from every tax, the artaba tax for all the arouras being paid by me, Ptolemaios (as well). And I shall perform all the proper agricultural work [at my expense] . . . And [I shall pay] the rent [in the month of Pauni (?) . . .] on the threshing floor [in the village(?)] . . . [with a four-choinix measure, (the payment in kind being) new,] clean, and pure. And after the term, [I will return to you the] plot clean of rush and [reed and] every [filth] . . . (2 H.) Year 13 (?) of Antoninus Caesar the Lord [month, day].
P.Col. X 260 Plate 13 in P.Col. X; published by H. Lapin, BASP 28 (1991) 153-61, with plate V P.Col.:10:260