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Offer to lease land for money rent with extra payments in olives and oil TM 18271unbekannt84 - 96

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The end of a written offer to lease land, in which the prospective tenant promises a money rent of 800 drachmas plus olives and olive oil, payable in three instalments, with the usual guarantee of execution on his property. It is dated to the reign of Domitian, Hathyr 9, and signed by a man described as a Persian of the epigone.

In English machine translation

[...] 800 [drachmas] and, as extra payments, 2 artabas of choice black olives by the running measure, the private one of Marcus Antonius Aper, and 6 choes of pure, unadulterated olive oil by the measure of Berrius, free of all risk and free of all deduction; and I will pay the rent in three equal instalments, in the month of Mecheir, in the month of Germanikeios and in the month of Kaisareios, each instalment being the equal share, Sabein[...], you having the right of execution upon me and upon all my property, as if by a court judgment, if it seems good to you to lease on the aforesaid terms. Year [...] of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, Hathyr 9. [...]s son of Dame[...]thion, Persian of the epigone: I have submitted the aforesaid offer to lease [...] for 800 drachmas and, as extra payments, 2 artabas of black olives and 6 choes of olive oil, as stated above.

Germanikeios and Kaisareios are honorific month names of Domitian's time (corresponding to Pachon and Mesore). 'Persian of the epigone' was a legal status designation, not an ethnic identity, and 'extra payments' renders exairetа, supplements to the main rent.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bodenpachthypomnema). 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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p.mil.congr.xviii.pg47

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 84 - 96

ὀκτακοσίαις καὶ ἐξαιρέτων ἐλαίας ἐκλεκτῆς μελαίνης ἀρταβῶν δύο μέτρωι δρόμωι ἰδίωι τῶι τοῦ Μάρκου Ἀντωνίου Ἄπρου καὶ ἐλαίου ἐλαείνου καθαροῦ ἀδόλου χοέων ἓξ μέτρωι Βερρίου ἀκίνδυνα παντὸς κινδύνου καὶ ἀνυπόλογα παντὸς ὑπολόγου, τὸν δὲ φόρον ἀποδώσω ἐν ἀναφοραῖς ἰσομερέσι τρισὶ μη…