An offer to lease a room on the upper floor of a house in the village of Dinneos Koite in the Arsinoite nome (Fayum). Aurelia Tasia, acting without a guardian, asks Aurelius Kollouthos for a one-year lease at a rent of 1 artaba 8 measures of wheat, dated 16 June 325.
In English machine translation
To Aurelius Kollouthos son of Ision, from the village of Dinneos Koite in the Arsinoite nome,
from Aurelia Tasia daughter of Potymis, her mother being Taas, from the same village of Dinneos, acting without a guardian by the right of children. I wish to lease from you the room belonging to you in the same village of Dinnis, in the house of Ours… son of Ploutammon, in the upper storey, for a period of one year from the present 13th indiction, that is from Pauni 22, at a yearly rent of one artaba and eight measures of wheat, wheat 1 artaba 8 measures, free from all risk and not subject to any deduction; moreover I shall necessarily take care of the room, and I shall pay the yearly rent by the four-choinix measure, and after the year I shall hand back to you the aforesaid room together with the door fitted to it. The lease is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my consent.
In the consulship of Paulinus and Julianus, viri clarissimi, Pauni 22.
I, Aurelia Tasia, have leased as stated above. I, Aurelius Apios son of Syros, wrote on her behalf because she is illiterate.
The 'right of children' (ius liberorum) allowed a woman with enough children to act legally without a male guardian. The scribe wrote 'from the village' twice by mistake.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tender for Lease of a Room). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.