Amos: -220 To -200 Fragment of a land-lease document

Century Category:
3rd century BCE
Region:
Karia
City:
Amos
Date:
220-200 BCE
Certainty of pre-1st century CE date:
CERTAIN
Document Type:
Record of contract and lease
Epigraphic Reference:
Onur (2025)
Place of Publication:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/599485
Place of Conception:
http://nomisma.org/id/samothrace
Epigraphic Reference in Full:
Onur (2025) 283-285
Reference Number:
283-285
Bibliographic URL:
https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/003106166?sid=325866658
Date From:
-220
Date To:
-200
Description:
Fragment of a land-lease document

References to monetary behaviour (5)

Place of Transaction Authority Transaction Type Purpose/Focus Context/Field of Action Commodity Monetary Material Coin Denomination/Unit of Monetary Measurement Lines Notes
http://nomisma.org/id/caunus City Regulation Property (land) Contract (lease) A ll. 1-5 Provisions that the leaseholder would have to pay a 10th ([ἐπιδέκ]ατα, in interest?) if the initial payment is not received within 6 months, and to pay back half the contract price if he does not pay at all.
http://nomisma.org/id/caunus City Regulation Property (land) Contract (lease) A ll. 5-29 Provisions outlining the limits of the contract, that leases are not permitted for public lands if the contract price is not paid, that the leaseholder may construct certain buildings, that the leaseholder has to grow certain crops, and that the guarantors for the contract may be removed once the required buildings are built.
http://nomisma.org/id/caunus City Regulation Construction Contract (lease) A ll. 5-29 Provisions outlining the limits of the contract, that leases are not permitted for public lands if the contract price is not paid, that the leaseholder may construct certain buildings, that the leaseholder has to grow certain crops, and that the guarantors for the contract may be removed once the required buildings are built.
http://nomisma.org/id/caunus City Regulation Property (land) Contract (lease) Mina (μνᾶ) A ll. 16-23 Provisions that for every mina of rent the leaseholder would 800 grapevines and 40 fig saplings.
http://nomisma.org/id/caunus City Regulation Penalty Contract (lease) Silver Drachma (δραχμή) B ll. 1-17 Penalties between 500 and 1,000 drachmas for not abiding by the contract; further, the people of Amos would pay the leaseholder perhaps as much as 10,000 drachmas if it does not maintain the terms of the contract (ll. 12-16).