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Lease of a single-storey house in the Western Fort quarter of Hermopolis TM 16116Hermopolis20. Febr. 491

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A lease in which Phoibammon son of Pekysis, from the village of Tlethmis in the Hermopolite nome, rents a single-storey house with a courtyard in the Western Fort quarter of Hermopolis from Flavius Taurinus, a former commentariensis of the military staff of the Thebaid frontier command. The rent is paid yearly in gold and silver money, and the lease runs at the owner's pleasure.

In English machine translation

After the consulship of Flavius Longinus, vir clarissimus, for the 2nd time, Mecheir 26, 14th indiction. To Flavius Taurinus son of Ioannes, the devotissimus, former commentariensis of the […] military office of the Thebaid frontier command {of the Thebaid frontier command}, from Phoibammon son of Pekysis, his mother being Tapia, […] from the village of Tlethmis in the Hermopolite nome. I acknowledge that I have willingly and of my own choice leased from your admirableness, for whatever period you wish, reckoned from […] of the past month Tybi of the present fourteenth indiction, the entire house belonging to your excellence, in whatever condition it is, single-storeyed, with […] and a courtyard outside the same house, with all its appurtenances […], situated in the quarter of the Western Fort, for my use and habitation, at a rent each year […] of your cousin […] of 1 1/2 gold solidi less 3 carats on the standard of the same city, and of 4,500 myriads of silver, which rent I will pay you at the end of each year […]

A commentariensis was an official in charge of records and prisoners on a military or administrative staff. The lease is terminable at the lessor's will, a common late antique formula.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Mietvertrag über ein Haus). 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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bgu.12.2162

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 20. Febr. 491 · Hermopolis

μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαυίου Λογγίνου λαμπροτάτου τὸ β, Μεχεὶρ κϛ, ιδ ἰνδικτίονος. Φλαυίῳ Ταυρίνῳ Ἰωάννου τῷ καθοσιωμένῳ ἀπὸ κομμενταρησίων […]ης στρατιωτικῆς τάξεως τοῦ Θηβαικοῦ λιμίτου παρὰ Φοιβάμμωνος Πεκυσίου μητρὸς Ταπίας […]ἀπὸ κώμης Τλήθμεως τοῦ Ἑρμουπολίτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογῶ ἑκ…