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Lease of an underground room in a house at Oxyrhynchus TM 15729Oxyrhynchos15. Aug. 345

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A lease contract from Oxyrhynchus, dated 15 August 345, in which Aurelia Annis rents to Aurelia Nonna an underground room in her house in the Hot Bath quarter for two years at 35 talents of silver a year. The lessee must pay half the rent every six months and return the room clean with its doors and keys.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Flavii Amantius and Albinus, the most illustrious, Mesore 22. Aurelia Annis daughter of Hierax, from the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, has leased to Aurelia Nonna daughter of Aninketos, with Horion, from the same city, for a period of two years from Thoth 1 of the auspiciously coming year 22 [and] 13, from the property belonging to her in the same city in the quarter of the Hot Bath, which is below the eastern colonnade of the city, out of a whole house, one underground room […] with all its appurtenances, at a yearly rent for the one room agreed between them of 35 talents of imperial silver […] coinage, (talents) 35. The lease being guaranteed, the lessee shall of necessity pay the rent half every six months, and shall use the room for the term without hindrance, after which she shall hand it back clean of dung and all filth, together with whatever doors and keys she receives; otherwise she shall pay the full value of whatever she does not hand back, the right of execution being […] […]

The year 22 and 13 refers to the regnal years of the reigning emperors (Constantius II and Constans) used in Oxyrhynchite dating. The end of the contract is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contratto d’affitto). 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 · 15. Aug. 345 · Oxyrhynchos

ὑπατείας Φλαουίων Ἀμαντίου καὶ Ἀλβίνου τῶνλαμπροτάτων Μεσορὴ κβ. ἐμίσθωσεν Αὐρηλία Ἄννις Ἱέρακος ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως Αὐρηλίᾳ Νόννᾳ Ἀνινκήτου μετὰ Ὡρίωνος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως ἐπὶ χρόνον ἔτη δύο ἀπὸ αΘὼθ τοῦ εὐτυχῶς εἰσιόντος ἔτους κβ ιγ ἀπὸ τῶν ὑπα…