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Offer to lease two cloakroom concessions in the public baths of Oxyrhynchus TM 19443Oxyrhynchos26. Apr. - 25. Mai 259

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An offer addressed to the city authorities of Oxyrhynchus by the son of the late Eudaimon son of Serenos to lease two public cloakroom concessions in the Antoninian and Trajanic baths of the gymnasium, which his father had held. He offers to pay the city 17 drachmas 1 obol per month and will be bound only if the lease is confirmed. It dates to Pachon of year 6 of Valerian and Gallienus (AD 259).

In English machine translation

[…] of the same city of Oxyrhynchus. I voluntarily undertake to lease two public cloakroom posts (kapsaria) which formerly belonged to my late father Eudaimon son of Serenos, being in the gymnasium in the Antoninian and Trajanic baths, from the 11th of the present month Pachon of the current 6th year, offering to the city, beyond what has been decided concerning the rent paid by the cloakroom keepers of the bath that is in operation, 17 drachmas 1 obol each month, which, if I am confirmed, I will pay into the city's account each month, and I will use the same cloakrooms without hindrance. But if I am not confirmed, I shall not be bound by this undertaking, which is valid. And having been asked the formal question, I agreed. Year 6 of the Emperors Caesars Publius Licinius Valerianus and Publius Licinius Valerianus Gallienus Germanici Maximi, Pii, Felices, and […] […]

The kapsaria were cloakrooms or clothes-keeping stations in the baths, leased out by the city as concessions. The opening with the addressee and the lessee's name 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 Pachtangebot auf zwei Garderobierstellen in den städtischen Thermen von Oxyrhynchos). 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 · 26. Apr. - 25. Mai 259 · Oxyrhynchos

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