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A bank notice recording that Syros, an oil-maker, paid Nemesas son of Heliodoros the rent for year 6 of Antoninus Pius on an oil-press he leased. The press belonged to the serving gymnasiarch Pompeius Ptolemaios, whose property Nemesas managed; the rent was 5 metretai of oil, half olive oil and half radish oil.
One record dates the text to AD 122 and places it elsewhere, but the regnal date (year 7 of Antoninus Pius) gives AD 143. A metretes is a liquid measure; radish oil was a common cheap oil in Roman Egypt.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Rent of an Oil - Press). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
A notice issued through the bank of Sarapion, probably at Arsino�, by Syrus to Nemesas, stating that he had paid Nemesas 5 metretae of oil, being the year's rent of an oil-press belonging to Pompeius Ptolemaeus, a gymnasiarch, of whose property Nemesas was acting as guardian.
ἔτους ἑβδόμου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς, Ἁθὺρ κθ, διὰ τῆς Σαραπίωνος τραπέζης Πτερουιτ…[…]κου. Σύρος Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου ἐλαιοῦργος Νεμεσᾶτι Ἡλιοδώρου τοῦ Εὐδαίμονος ἀπὸ ἀμφόδου […]κων ὡς ἐτῶν τεσσαράκοντα ἀσήμῳ ἀπέχειν τὸν Νεμ…
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