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Lease of an oil-factory in the Camp quarter of Oxyrhynchus TM 15362Oxyrhynchos11. Sept. 412

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Beginning of a lease in which Aurelius Petros, an oil-maker of Oxyrhynchus, offers to rent from Flavius Limenius an entire oil-factory with its equipment, outbuildings and well in the Camp quarter of the city. The annual rent is set partly in radish oil (120 xestai) and partly in a clean commodity (120 artabas), dated 11 September 412.

In English machine translation

After the consulship of our masters Honorius for the 9th time and Theodosius for the 4th time, the eternal Augusti, Thoth 14. […] To Flavius Limenius, vir clarissimus, from the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, from Aurelius Petros […] from the same city, oil-maker. I voluntarily undertake to lease, from the present month Thoth of the current year 89/58 of the present eleventh indiction, from the property belonging to you in the same city in the quarter […] of the Camp, an entire oil-factory […] one […] with a millstone (?) and basket […] a crushing […] with a mortar and two shoulders (?) and […] and outbuildings and spaces and a well and […] all, and I will pay as rent annually […] of radish oil 120 xestai […] of clean […] 120 artabas […] […] [… lines lost …]

Year 89/58 is the double Oxyrhynchite era count. The technical terms for the press equipment (strobilos, omoi, thyeia) have no exact English equivalents, and some renderings are approximate.

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 an Oil-Factory). 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.oxy.51.3639

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 11. Sept. 412 · Oxyrhynchos

μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Ὁνωρίου τὸ θ καὶ Θεοδοσίου τὸ δ τῶν αἰωνίων Αὐγούστων Θὼθ ιδ. […] Φλαουΐῳ Λιμενίῳ λαμπροτάτῳ ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Πέτρου[…] ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως ἐλαιουργοῦ. ἑκουσίως ἐπιδέχομαι μισθώσασθαι ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄντ…