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Offer to lease a mill with two grinding machines at Tebtynis TM 12357Tebtynis (Arsinoites)152 - 153

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An offer to lease a mill at Tebtynis, addressed by Olbanos son of Philadelphos to two former gymnasiarchs, Ptollarion and his nephew, for the sixteenth year of Antoninus Pius (AD 152/153). The mill has two grinding machines, and the rent is 200 drachmas payable in two half-yearly instalments, with taxes and repairs divided between the parties.

In English machine translation

To Ptollarion son of Paulinus, former gymnasiarch, and to his nephew Gemellus (?) son of Patron, former gymnasiarch, from Olbanos son of Philadelphos son of Herakleides, of the quarter of Tharapia. I wish to lease from you for the present sixteenth year of Antoninus Caesar the lord only the mill belonging to you in the village of Tebtynis, in which there are two grinding machines, and a kopteura (crushing room?), at a total rent of 200 silver drachmas, the payment of which I shall make every six months in equal shares, the so-called tax on the animals' licence (diploma) being my responsibility, Olbanos, but the pelochikon tax being yours, and likewise the necessary repairs of the mill. If it seems good to you to lease it.

The pelochikon was a tax connected with mills, and the diploma tax was a licence fee on the animals driving the millstones. The name of the nephew is given in the Greek as Gemeinos, probably for Gemellus or Geminus.

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 un mulino). 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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p.mil.vogl.2.53

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 152 - 153 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

Πτολλαρίωνι Παυλείνου γεγυμνασιαρχηκότι καὶ τῷ τούτου ἀδελφιδῇ Γεμείνῳ Πάτρωνος γεγυμνασιαρχηκότι παρὰ Ὀλβανοῦ Φιλαδέλφου τοῦ Ἡρακλείδου ἀπὸ ἀμφόδου Θαραπίας. βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρʼ ὑμῶν πρὸς μόνον τὸ ἐνεστὸς ἑκκαιδέκατον ἔτος Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου τὸ ὑπάρχον ὑμῶν ἐν …