Lease of a House
Lease of a house by a fuller , with the signature of the lessor confirming the lease
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 15709
Lease of a house to a fuller TM 15709unknown place, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptAugust 17, 98 A.D.
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End of a lease of a house in the Arsinoite nome, in which a fuller takes the house for the coming second year of Trajan at a rent of 40 silver drachmas, paid in two equal instalments, with the right to practise his trade there. The lessor, […]sarios son of Apollos, signs his consent; the document is dated 17 August AD 98.
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for only the coming second year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, at a total rent of 40 silver drachmas, which I will also pay in equal instalments in the month of Phamenoth and the month of Kaisareios, it being permitted to me to carry on the fuller's trade in the […] and the upper room (?); and after the term I will hand over the house clean of all filth, together with the doors and keys fitted to it, if it appears so, in all respects as set out above, not sublet and not worked by the lessor (?).
[…]sarios son of Apollos: I have consented as stated above.
Year 1 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, month of Kaisareios 24.
Kaisareios is the Roman-era name for the month Mesore. The closing terms ametamistha kai anautourgeta are formulaic guarantees whose exact sense here is not certain.
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 House). 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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