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Offer to lease eighteen arouras near Poampinouphis from Aurelia Diogenis TM 20069Magdola Mire (Hermopolites)254 - 268

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Offer to lease 18 arouras of land near Poampinouphis, addressed by two villagers of Magdola Mire to the landowner Aurelia Diogenis also called Herakleia, a woman of senatorial-matron rank, through her estate manager Harpokration. It dates to the reign of Gallienus (AD 254-268) in the Hermopolite nome; the text breaks off in the rent terms.

In English machine translation

To Aurelia Diogenis also called Herakleia, matrona stolata, through Harpokration, manager, from the Aurelii Pethotes son of Paesis, his mother being Tasoukas, and Harpathotes son of Saras, his mother being Eus, both from the village of Magdola Mire. We wish voluntarily to lease from you for the present […] year only of our lord Gallienus Augustus, from the land belonging to you jointly with others in the area around Poampinouphis, from the kleros of Agazelos, eighteen arouras for sowing with wheat and hay and whatever other fallow crops we may choose, at half the rent, of the one half in […] 4 artabas of […] […]

Matrona stolata is a Roman honorific for a woman of high (equestrian or senatorial) status. The rent clause is damaged and its exact terms are uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 254 - 268 · Magdola Mire (Hermopolites)

Αὐρηλίᾳ Διογενίδι τῇ καὶ Ἡρακλείᾳ ματρώνᾳ στολάτᾳ διʼἉρποκρατίωνος προνοητοῦ παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Πεθώτου Παήσιος μητρὸς Τασουκᾶτος καὶ Ἁρπαθώτου Σαρᾶτος μητρὸς Εὖτος ἀμφοτέρων ἀπὸ κώμης Μαγδώλων Μίρη. βουλόμεθα ἑκουσίως μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ πρὸς μόνον τὸ ἐνεστὸς […]ἔτος τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν…