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Lease of a room at Kellis by a carpenter TM 20295Kellis (Oasis Magna)21. Nov. 369

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A lease in which Aurelius Psais, a carpenter of Kellis in the Dakhla Oasis, acknowledges renting a room in a house from Aurelius Pamour, also of Kellis, for 200 silver talents a year. It is dated by the consuls of AD 369.

In English machine translation

[recto] Aurelius Psais son of Psyros, carpenter, from the village of Kellis in the Mothite nome, to Aurelius Pamour son of Psais son of Pamour, from the same village of the same nome, greeting. I acknowledge that I have leased from you the room (cella) belonging to you in the house of […] on condition that […] and I will pay you as rent each year 200 talents of silver, and I will restore to you the same room just as I received it, […] without delay and without dispute. The lease, written in a single copy with the subscription of the person subscribing on my behalf, shall be valid and secure and lawful, and having been asked the formal question I gave my consent. In the consulship of our master Valentinianus the Younger, most noble, and Flavius Victor, most illustrious, Phamenoth according to the Egyptians, on the third. I, Aurelius Psais, the aforementioned, made the lease as stated above. [verso] Lease of Psais (on behalf of?) […]

The text gives the month Phamenoth, which does not match the November date in the records; the date may reflect an editorial correction of the month. The talent here is the heavily inflated fourth-century money of account.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease of a Room). 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 · 21. Nov. 369 · Kellis (Oasis Magna)

[r] Αὐρήλιος Ψάις Ψύρου τέκτων ἀπὸ κώμης Κέλλεως τοῦ Μωθίτου νομοῦ Αὐρηλίῳ Παμοῦρ Ψάιτος Παμοῦρ ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ μεμισθῶσθαι παρὰ σοῦ τὴν ὑπάρχουσάν σοι κέλλαν ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκίας τῆς …[…] ἐπὶ τῷ μ…[…] καὶ ἀποδώσω σοι ὑπὲρ ἐνοικίου ἑκάστου ἐνιαυτοῦ …