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Lease of a room in a house at Hermopolis TM 19329Hermopolisca. 9. Juli 577

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A lease in which Aurelius Victor, son of Sekuntilla, rents from a son of the late Diodoros and Kamaleet a bedroom on the upper floor of a house in the East City quarter of Hermopolis, with use of the roof, well and courtyard. The lease runs at the landlord's pleasure from Epeiph 15 of the 11th indiction, in the 12th year of Justin II.

In English machine translation

† In the reign of our most divine master Flavius [Justin], the eternal Augustus and Emperor, year twelve, indiction 11. To […] son of the late […] Diodoros and lady Kamaleet, [from the city of] the Hermopolitans, from Aurelius Victor […] mother Sekuntilla, from the same [city], greetings. I acknowledge that I have willingly and of my own choice leased [from you], for whatever period you wish, reckoned from the [fifteenth] of the month of Epeiph of the present eleventh [indiction], the one entire bedroom belonging to you [on the second] floor facing south, with the vaulted (?) […] and the entire roof terrace and the [adjoining] well and the courtyard and every right […] of the house situated in this [city of the] Hermopolitans in the quarter of the East City, [in the so-called] place of the archangels Michael and [Gabriel], to the east, for my use and [management] […] [… ? lines lost …]

The emperor's name Justin is restored from the regnal year and indiction. The lease is 'for whatever period you wish', a common Byzantine formula for tenancy terminable by the lessor; the end with the rent is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Wohnungsmiete). 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 · ca. 9. Juli 577 · Hermopolis

† βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου Φλαυίου Ἰουστίνουτοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου Αὐτοκράτορος, ἔτους δωδεκάτου ια ἰνδικτίονος. […]υἱῷ τοῦ τῆς μακαρίας μνήμης […]…… Διοδώρου καὶ κύρας Καμαλεὲτ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑρμουπολιτῶν παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Βίκτορος […]μητρὸς Σεκουντίλλας ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως χα…