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Offer to lease two dovecotes and a storeroom near the temple of Petesouchos TM 10942Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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An offer to lease two dovecotes and a storeroom near the temple of Petesouchos for three years, addressed by Aurelius Heron, a councillor of Arsinoe, to Aurelius Appianus, a councillor of Alexandria, acting through his agent Aurelius Ninnos. The annual rent is 400 silver drachmas plus extras.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Appianus, former exegetes, councillor of the most splendid city of the Alexandrians, through Aurelius Ninnos, and however he is styled, from Aurelius Heron son of Syros, former kosmetes, councillor of the city of the Arsinoites. I wish to lease […] near the temple of Petesouchos in the […] two dovecotes and one storeroom for a period of three years from the present month of Tybi of the current year 1, at a total rent each year, in equal instalments paid in advance […] of Aphrodisios and Serenos also called Katilos, of 400 silver drachmas, and as extras […] two hundred (?), free from all deduction and risk.

Appianus is the well-known Alexandrian landowner of the Heroninos archive, which places the text in the 3rd century AD. The amount of the extras is lost apart from the words 'two' and 'hundred'.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Affitto di due colombaie e di un magazzino). 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 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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