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Lease offer by Georgios, courier of the glorious house, to a dyer TM 16393Oxyrhynchos542 - 566

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Opening of a lease contract from Oxyrhynchus, dated by the post-consulate of Basilius (AD 542-566), in which Aurelius Georgios, a courier of a great estate (the 'glorious house'), offers to lease something from a dyer, son of Apollonios. The object and terms of the lease are lost.

In English machine translation

[recto] In the [… year after the consulship] of Flavius Basilius, the most illustrious, Mesore 29, indiction […] Aurelius Georgios, symmachos (courier) of the glorious house, son of Annianos, his mother being Tresil, originating from the illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, to Aurelius […], dyer, son of Apollonios, from the same city. I voluntarily undertake [to lease …] […] [verso] Lease of Georgios […]

A symmachos was a messenger or courier in the service of a large estate, here the 'glorious house', probably the Apion household. The exact year is lost; dating by the post-consulate of Basilius covers 542-566.

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 · 542 - 566 · Oxyrhynchos

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