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Draft application to lease fishing rights at the gate of Herakleios TM 15201Oxyrhynchos183 - 184 (?)

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A draft or model application, with the applicant left as "so-and-so", offering to lease the fishing rights in the waters of a sluice-gate at the outlets of Melanthios for one year at 1,100 silver drachmas. It is addressed to Dionysios, one of the contractors of the fishery tax of the Oxyrhynchite nome, and dates from about AD 183-184.

In English machine translation

From so-and-so. To Dionysios, engaged [...] with others in the contract for the fishery tax of the city (?) of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from so-and-so, from the city of Oxyrhynchus. We voluntarily undertake to lease the fishing rights in the waters of the sluice-gate called that of Herakleios, of the outlets of Melanthios, for the current 24th year, at a total rent of 1,100 silver drachmas, on condition that, once the lease is confirmed, at the moment of confirmation we shall pay 550 drachmas [...] and [...] the remaining 550 drachmas [...] [...] [...] [...] [...]

The use of "so-and-so" (para tinos) for the applicant shows this is a draft or template rather than an executed offer. The 24th regnal year, presumably of Commodus, gives the date of AD 183-184.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application to lease fishing rights). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 183 - 184 (?) · Oxyrhynchos

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