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An offer to lease a pottery workshop for three years, addressed by Aurelius Adelphios, a former magistrate and councillor of Hermopolis, to the heirs of Amazonios. The workshop lies on their land near Sinarchebis, and the yearly rent is 1,200 jars, with the owners supplying the pitch; the rest of the text is lost. It dates to Thoth (late August to September) AD 316.
The term 'chersampelos' denotes land that was formerly vineyard and has become dry. The rent is paid in 'kouphon', light pottery jars of the kind the workshop would produce.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtangebot für eine Töpferei). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
κληρονόμοις Ἀμαζονίου καὶ ὡς χρηματίζετε διὰ τῶν ἑξης ὑπογραφόντων παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἀδελφίου Ἀδελφίου ἄρξαντος βουλευτοῦ Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως τῆς λαμπροτάτης. βούλομαι ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐθαιρέτως μισθώσασθαι παρʼ ὑμῶν ἐπὶ χρόνον ἔτη τρία ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄντος μηνὸς Θὼθ τῆς ἐνεστώσης ὑπατείας πέμπτης ἰν…
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