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An offer to lease one aroura of land, addressed by Aurelius Dyskolos of the village of Temenkyrkis to Flavius Taurinus, a biarchus of the military unit of Moors stationed at Hermopolis. The lease was to run for as long as the owner wished, starting with the crops of the coming 15th indiction. It was written at Hermopolis on 16 November 430.
A biarchus was a junior officer rank in the late Roman army; the Mauri (Moors) were a unit garrisoned at Hermopolis. The text breaks off in the description of the plot's boundaries.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtangebot). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαυίων Φλωρεντίου καὶ Διονυσίου τῶν λαμπροτάτων, Ἁθὺρ κ. Φλαυίῳ Ταυρίνῳ Πλουσάμμωνος βιάρχῳ νουμέρου Μαύρων Ἑρμουπόλεως τῆς λαμπροτάτης παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Δυσκόλου …υρίωνος μητρὸς Ἑλένης ἀπὸ κώμης Τεμενκύρκεως τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ. βούλομαι ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐθαιρέτως μι…
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