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Offer to lease a flock of sheep and goats TM 10080Arsinoites21. Febr. 215

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An offer to lease livestock, 112 sheep and 30 goats, for four years, addressed by a villager to Aurelius Hermias also called Apollonios, a former strategos of Alexandria and councillor. It sets out an annual rent of 1,000 drachmas, payments in goat skins and fleeces, rent in three instalments, and the return of the flock at the end. Written in the Arsinoite nome on 21 February 215.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Hermias also called Apollonios, neokoros of the great Sarapis, former strategos of the most splendid city of the Alexandrians, councillor, and however he is styled, from […]itis (?), son of Polion, his mother being Thenapynchis, from the village of […]os. I wish to lease from you the animals I previously held on lease, 112 sheep and 30 goats, for four years from the coming month of Phamenoth, at a total rent each year for the […] sheep of 1,000 silver drachmas, and for the offspring, each year from the present 23rd year, likewise for the 100 sheep […] of all, each year, of full-grown goat skins […] fourteen, and I will give to the honourable […] to the […] 20 full-grown fleeces, receiving […] for each 12 silver drachmas; and I will pay the yearly rent in three equal instalments every four months […] providing for myself […] and the […] being the responsibility of the honourable one, while the […] of all being my responsibility […] I will hand over the sheep full-grown, [immortal (?)] […] having received the same care and attention […] if it seems good to you to lease, while there remains to you […] I owe of the rent 2 minas. […] of Neilos also called Ischyrion […] Year 23 of Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Parthicus Maximus Britannicus Maximus Germanicus Maximus Pius Augustus, Mecheir 27.

"Immortal" sheep refers to the clause that the flock must be returned at full number, with losses replaced by the lessee. Neokoros was an honorary temple-warden title.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Location de bétail). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 21. Febr. 215 · Arsinoites

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