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Offer to lease a house at Tebtynis from Heron, former exegetes TM 12385Tebtynis (Arsinoites)170 - 171

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An offer to lease a house, in which Sarapion son of Phib, a resident of Tebtynis registered in the metropolis, asks the former exegetes Heron son of Amatios to rent him a house in the village for two years. The rent is 80 silver drachmas a year plus a cock as a customary gift, with a 100-drachma penalty for breach. It was written at Tebtynis in AD 170-171.

In English machine translation

To Heron, former exegetes, son of Amatios, former gymnasiarch, from Sarapion son of Phib, from the metropolis, registered in the quarter of […] Gerdion (?), residing in the village of Tebtynis. I wish to lease from you for two years from the present 11th year of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord the house belonging to you in the village, before the neighbours (?), in your goose-yard on the east of the village, at a total rent each year of 80 silver drachmas and as a yearly gift 1 full-grown cock, free of deductions and risks. And it shall not be permitted to me to abandon the lease within the period, nor indeed to you to evict me, or else the party who breaks the agreement shall pay to the party who abides by it 100 drachmas by way of penalty. And after the period I will hand back the house clean, with the doors and keys fitted to it. If it seems good to you to lease.

The 'thallion' is a customary gift in kind added to rent, here a full-grown cock. The 11th year of Marcus Aurelius corresponds to AD 170/171.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Locazione di casa). 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.3.143

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 170 - 171 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

Ἥρωνι ἐξηγητευκότι υἱῷ Ἀματίου γεγυμνασιαρχηκότος παρὰΣαραπίωνος Φὶβ ἀπὸ τῆς μητροπόλεως ἀναγραφομένου ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου …αλ…ν Γερδίων καταμένοντος ἐν κώμῃ Τεπτύνει. βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρά σου εἰς ἔτη δύο ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ια ἔτους Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου τὴν ὑπάρχουσ…