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Lease by a vine-dresser to Flavius Faustus of Hermopolis, with clerical guarantors TM 19759Hermopolites27. Dez. 561 - 25. Jan. 562

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Beginning of a lease agreement in which Aurelius Phoibammon, a vine-dresser from the hamlet of Basilios near the village of Isidoros, leases something from Flavius Faustus of Hermopolis, with a priest and a deacon of his hamlet acting as guarantors. It was written in the Hermopolite nome in late December 561 or January 562.

In English machine translation

[recto] † After the consulship of Flavius Basilius the most glorious, year twenty, Tybi […] indiction. ☧ To Flavius Faustus the most esteemed, son of Victor of blessed memory, from the city of the Hermopolites, from Aurelius Phoibammon son of Matthaios, his mother being Sophia, vine-dresser, from the hamlet of Basilios, of the fields of the village of Isidoros in the Hermopolite nome. This man being guaranteed and vouched for in the drawing up of this lease agreement, at their own risk and that of all their property, by Victor son of Matthaios, priest, and Peeus son of Phibios, deacon, from the same hamlet, I acknowledge that I have willingly and of my own choice leased from you […] [… lines lost …] [verso] † Lease agreement […] ☧ Of Victor, priest […]

The object of the lease is lost, so what was leased is unknown. The dating counts years after the consulship of Basilius (541), the last regular consul, here year 20.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease uncertain). 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 · 27. Dez. 561 - 25. Jan. 562 · Hermopolites

[r] † μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαυίου Βασιλείου τοῦ ἐνδοξοτάτου ἔτους εἰκοστοῦ Τῦβι[…] ἰνδικτίονος. ☧ Φλαυίῳ Φαύστῳ τῷ εὐδοκιμωτάτῳ υἱῷ τοῦ τῆς μακαρίας μνήμης Βίκτορος ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑρμουπολιτῶν παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Φοιβάμμωνος Μαθείου μητρὸς Σωφίας αμπελουργοῦ ἀπὸ ἐποικίου Βασιλείου πεδίων κώμης …