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Lease of a bakery with mill and oven at Tebtynis TM 12273Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egyptca. 30 A.D.[?]

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A contract from Tebtynis in which Herakleides leases to the brothers Petesouchos and Sochotes, sons of Petesouchos, a bakery in his farmstead, equipped with a Theban mill, a mortar and an oven, for two years at 80 silver drachmas a year. The rent is payable in four instalments of 20 drachmas, and the illiterate lessees' subscription was written by Diodoros son of Ptolemaios.

In English machine translation

[…] six (?), a scar […] […] […] [Persians of the Epigone, each other's] sureties for payment, in the farmstead belonging to Herakleides in the same village […], and in it a Theban mill with its tables and handle, and one mortar and one oven. The lease is for two years from the aforesaid time, for bread-making if the lessees wish, on condition that the lessees pay to Herakleides as rent for all the aforesaid, each year, 80 silver drachmas, free of all deductions. The lessees shall not be permitted to abandon the lease, but the lessees shall pay the stated rent to Herakleides in four equal instalments, in Tybi and Pharmouthi, Pauni, Epeiph, always on the 20th, 20 silver drachmas per instalment, Herakleides having the right of execution upon the lessees and upon all their property as if by a court judgment, the lease being guaranteed by Herakleides. The subscriber for the lessees is Diodoros son of Ptolemaios, with a scar on his right foot. We, Petesouchos and Sochotes, both sons of Petesouchos, Persians of the Epigone, each other's sureties for payment, have leased on all the aforesaid terms. Diodoros son of Ptolemaios wrote on their behalf because they do not know letters. […]

"Persians of the Epigone" was a legal status designation in Roman-period contracts, not an ethnic one. A "Theban mill" was a type of hand-operated grain mill.

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

Lease of a Bakery

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 673 · ca. 30 A.D.[?] · Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Contract by which Herakleides, son of [- - -], leases a bakery to Petesouchos and Sochotes, both sons of Petesouchos

p.mich.10.586

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 30 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

[… ? lines lost …] ἓξ οὐλὴ ………[…] χ…ωτου ………[…]Πέρσαις τῆς ἐπιγονῆς ἀλλήλων ἐγγύοις εἰς ἔκτισιν, ἐν τῇ ὑπαρχούσηι τῶι Ἡρακλείδῃ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ κώμῃ ἐπαύλει …… καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ μύλον Θηβαικὸν σὺν τραπέζαις καὶ κώπῃ καὶ ὅλμον ἕνα καὶ κλίβανον ἕνα . ἡ μίσθωσις εἰς ἔτη δύο ἀπὸ τοῦ προκιμένου …