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p.oxy.58.3955 23. Sept. 611Oxyrhynchos
Lease of Land via HGV-meta
Lease of an irrigation machine at the hamlet of Eirene. A lease in which Aurelius […], son of Paulus, from the hamlet of Eirene in the Hermopolite nome, rents an irrigation machine with its cistern, equipment and trees from a Flavius […], an official on the governor's staff in Arcadia. The tenant promises a yearly rent in wheat plus customary extra dues and services. Dated 23 September 611 at Oxyrhynchus. machine translation
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- Lease of Land HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos23. Sept. 611
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· Greek
Transcription
† ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν
βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουίου Ἡρακλείου
τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους δευτέρου, Θὼθ κε, ἰνδικτίωνος ιε.
Φλαουίῳ τῷ λαμπροτάτῳ τῆς ἡγεμονικῆς κατὰ Ἀρκαδίαν τάξεως υἱῷ τοῦ τῆς
μακαρίαςμνήμης[…]ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως
Αὐρήλιος […]υἱὸς Παύλου μητρὸς[…] ὁρμώμενος ἀπὸ ἐποικίου Εἰρήνης
τοῦ μεγάλου Ἑρμουπολίτου νομοῦ κτήματος τῆςὑμετέρας λαμπρότητος χαίρειν. ἑκουσίως
ἐπιδέχομαι μισθώσασθαι ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἔτους σπη † σνζ, τῆς παρούσης πεντεκαιδεκάτης
ἰνδικτίωνος, κατασπορᾶς δὲ καὶ συλλογῆς καρπῶν τῆς σὺν θεῷ πρώτης ἐπινεμήσεως,
τὴν διαφέρουσαν τῇ ὑμετέρᾳλαμπρότητι ὁλόκληρον μηχανὴν καλουμένην
[…] ἐξηρτισμένην πάσῃ ξυλικῇ ἐξαρτίᾳ
καὶ σιδηρώμασιν μετὰ καὶ τοῦ ἐπικειμένου ἐν αὐτῇ λάκκου καὶ ὑδρεύματος
καὶ κυκλευτηρίου καὶ μηχανικῶν ὀργάνων καὶ φυτῶν παντοίων καὶ παντὸς ἑτέρου
δικαίου[…]… καὶ τελέσω τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ λαμπρότητι
ὑπὲρ φόρου ταύτης καθʼ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν ἐπί τε Νειλοβρόχου καὶ ἀβρόχου σίτου
[…]…λλ…λ…[…]…ια…[…]…
[…]…εκτου ἐξαγίου τῇ ὑμετέρᾳλαμπρότητι
[…]…εκτου αὐτῆς εξ…[…]… δεκαπέντε, δώσω δὲ καὶ τὰ ἔκτακτα πάντα καὶ τὰς γεουχικὰς ὑπηρεσίας πάσας καὶ τὰ ἑορτικὰ
[…]…προς…, ὃνπερ φόρον
ἀκίνδυνον ὄντα παντὸς κινδύνου ἐπάναγκες ἀποδώσω αὐτῇ ἐν τῷ δέοντι καιρῷ
ἀνυπερθέτως, τὴν δὲ νομὴν τῆς προειρημένης μηχανῆς ἄτρωτον ἀβλαβῆ φυλάξω
καὶ παραδώσω τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ λαμπρότητι ὁπόταν βουληθείη ὡς καὶ παρείληφα. κυρία ἡ μίσθωσις ἁπλῆ
γραφεῖσα καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα.[…] … υἱὸς Παύλου ὁ προγεγραμμένος
πεποίημαι ταύτην τὴν μίσθωσιν καὶ ἀποδώσω τὸν
προγεγραμμένον φόρον κατὰ τὴν ἀνωτέρω διήγησιν
[…]… ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ ἀγραμμάτου ὄντος † .
di' emu[…]eteliothh…… † .Translations (1)
† In the name of the Lord and Master Jesus Christ, our God and Saviour.
In the reign of our most divine and most pious master, greatest benefactor, Flavius Heraclius, the eternal Augustus and Emperor, year 2, Thoth 25, indiction 15.
To Flavius […], most illustrious, of the governor's staff in Arcadia, son of […] of blessed memory, from the illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites,
Aurelius […], son of Paulus, mother […], originating from the hamlet of Eirene of the great Hermopolite nome, an estate of your illustriousness, greetings. I voluntarily undertake to lease from the present year 288 = 257, the present fifteenth indiction, for the sowing and harvest of crops of the first indiction with God's help, the entire irrigation machine belonging to your illustriousness called […], fitted with all wooden equipment and iron fittings, together with the cistern and water source lying in it, and the wheel-house and machine apparatus, and trees of every kind, and every other right […] and I will pay to your illustriousness as rent for it each year, for both Nile-flooded and unflooded land, wheat […] […] by the measure (?) of the solidus (?) to your illustriousness […] of it […] fifteen, and I will also give all the extraordinary dues and all the services owed to the landowner and the festival gifts […], which rent, free from all risk, I will necessarily pay to you at the proper time without delay, and I will keep the tenure of the aforesaid machine unharmed and undamaged and will return it to your illustriousness whenever you wish, just as I received it. The lease, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I agreed.
[…] son of Paulus, the aforementioned: I have made this lease and will pay the aforementioned rent according to the above statement. […] I wrote on his behalf since he is illiterate. †
Through me, […], executed. †
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 17936 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;58;3955 tier-1
- HGV-Text 17936 tier-1
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