Lease [III AD]
Lease of a city property, such as a house
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 17635
Lease of city property at Oxyrhynchus by Aurelia Tnephersois TM 17635Oxyrhynchites201 CE – 299 CE
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Beginning of a lease in which Aurelia Tnephersois of Oxyrhynchus, assisted by Aurelius Petarpous, lets part of her property in a city quarter to Aurelius Herminos for five years. It dates from the 3rd century AD and comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.
In English machine translation
Aurelia Tnephersois, daughter of Menekles, from Oxyrhynchus city, with her guardian (?) Aurelius Petarpous son of Kopreus, has leased to Aurelius Herminos son of Apollon, from the same city, for five years from the new moon of the coming month Phamenoth of the present 11th year, from the [property] belonging to her in the quarter […]
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The word synestos denotes a man assisting a woman in a legal act, here rendered 'guardian'. The text breaks off before the property and terms are described, though the records identify it as city property such as a house.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease of City Property). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.col.8.233
ἐμίσθωσεν Αὐρηλία Τνεφερσόις Μενεκλέως ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως μετὰ συνεστῶτος Αὐρηλίου Πεταρποῦ Κοπρέως Αὐρηλίῳ Ἑρμίνῳ Ἀπόλλωνος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως εἰς ἔτη πέντε ἀπὸ νεομηνίας τοῦ ἑξῆς μηνὸς Φαμενὼθ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ια ἔτους ἀπὸ τῆς ὑπαρχούσης αὐτῇ ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου [… ? lines lost …]