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Lease of monastery farmland by Apollos son of Dioskoros from the monastery of Zminis TM 19707Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)30. Aug. 527

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A lease contract in which Aurelius Apollos son of Dioskoros, village headman of Aphrodite, leases for one year a farm owned by the monastery of Zminis, represented by its superior Apa Psaios and its administrator Senouthes. It was drawn up on 30 August 527 at Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] † After the consulship of Flavius Olybrius, the most glorious, Thoth 1, of the sixth indiction. To the community of the most pious monks and hermits of the holy monastery of Zminis, through the most God-fearing Apa Psaios, superior of the same holy monastery, through the most pious Senouthes, fellow monk and administrator, from Aurelius Apollos son of Dioskoros, chief of the village (protokometes) of the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, greetings. I acknowledge that I have leased from your piety, for the present year only, for the crops of the coming, God willing, seventh indiction, the farm belonging to the pious monastery since long and immemorial time, of the irrigation machine […] formerly of Pabous of blessed memory, son of Poleis (?), of Panopolis […] the most glorious […] lying in the plain […] plot (?) […] [… lines lost …] [verso] […] of the holy monastery of Zminis […]

Apollos was the father of the well-known poet and notary Dioskoros of Aphrodite. The 'organon' is an irrigation device (water-wheel) by which the farm was identified.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease. Land). 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 · 30. Aug. 527 · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

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