Lease of a room in a house at Hermopolis from a deacon TM 16140Hermopolis25. Juni 574

[recto] [☧] In the reign and consulship of our most divine master Flavius Justinus, the eternal Augustus and Emperor, year […] ninth, Epeiph 1, indiction 8. To Apoll[…], the most pious deacon, […] son of […]yrides(?), from the city of the Hermopolites, from Aurelius Anouthis son of Taurinos, his mother being […]deia […], from the same city. I acknowledge that I have willingly and of my own choice leased from you, for as long as I have the use of the place listed below, reckoned from today, which is the first of Epeiph of the present eighth indiction, the place belonging to you, being one room on the second floor, facing north, together with a share of the courtyard and the well and all the other facilities and rights, from a house situated in the same Hermopolis in this quarter of Apeliotes, for my use and dwelling, the rent for it being 300 talents of silver per month, which rent I shall pay you at the end of each month without delay; and whenever you wish to have it, I shall hand over to you the same place with its door just as I received it. The lease is valid and guaranteed, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius Anouthis son of Taurinos, the aforesaid, have leased as stated above. I, Aurelius Phoibammon son of Victor, from Hermopolis, having been asked, wrote on his behalf because he does not know letters. I, Flavius Victor son of Kollouthos, am witness to the lease, having heard it from the party making it. † I, Aurelius Zacharias son of Menas, from Hermopolis, am witness to the lease, having heard it from the party making it. Written through me, […], notary, with God. [verso] […] of Anouthis son of Taurinos […]