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Offer to lease the fulling trade of Neilopolis and Soknopaiou Nesos from temple priests TM 11670Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)88 - 89

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An offer by four fullers, Akousilaos son of Maron, two of his sons and another man, to lease from the two heads of the priests of Soknopaios the right to the fulling trade in the villages of Neilopolis and Soknopaiou Nesos for one year at 240 silver drachmas, payable in ten monthly instalments. The priests' acceptance follows. It dates to the eighth year of Domitian (AD 88-89), from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum.

In English machine translation

To Satabous son of Stotoetis and Satabous the other, son of Stotoetis, heads of the priests of Soknopaios, the very great god, from Akousilaos son of Maron and H…tis son of Akousilaos and Isidoros son of Akousilaos and A[…] son of Kephalon, the four fullers, Persians of the Epigone. We wish to lease from you, for the present eighth year only of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, the fulling trade of the villages of Neilopolis and Soknopaiou Nesos, at a total rent of 240 silver drachmas, which we will also pay in ten instalments, the appropriate share each month, if it seems good to you to grant the lease on the above terms. We, Satabous son of Stotoetis and Satabous the other, son of Stotoetis, the heads, have granted […]

"Persians of the Epigone" was a legal status label in Roman Egypt, by then no longer an ethnic designation. The temple apparently held the concession for the fulling trade in these villages and sublet it.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 88 - 89 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

Σαταβοῦτι Στοτοήτιος καὶ Σαταβοῦτι ἑτέρωι Στοτοήτιος ἡγουμένοις ἱερέωνΣοκνοπαίου θεοῦ μεγίστου παρὰ Ἀκουσιλάου τοῦ Μάρωνος καὶ Η…τιος τοῦ Ἀκουσιλάου καὶ Ἰσιδώρου τοῦ Ἀκουσιλάου καὶ Ἀ[…]τοῦ Κεφάλονος τῶν τεσσάρων γναφῶν Περσῶν τῆς ἐπιγονῆς. βουλόμεθα μισθώσασθαι παρʼ ὑμῶν εἰς μόνο…