Lease of a house with a well in the Temgenouthis quarter of Oxyrhynchus TM 20636Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt1 March, 164 A.D.

Dionysia daughter of Chairemon, with her son Apion also called Dionysios, son of Diogenes, priest of Faustina Augusta, as guardian, both of the city of Oxyrhynchus, has leased to Ptolema daughter of Theon, an Antinoite, through Ioulas son of Didymos, by adoption son of Demetrios also called Apollonios, of the city of Oxyrhynchus, for one year and six months from the first day of the present month Phamenoth of the current 4th year of the lords Emperors Antoninus and Verus, the house belonging to her, formerly the property of her second cousin Chairemon, Antinoite, in the city of Oxyrhynchus in the Temgenouthis quarter, with a court and two open courts, in one of which there is a well, and the passage adjoining the house and other appurtenances, with entrance and exit, at a rent for the leased property of 200 silver drachmas for each year. The lease being guaranteed, the lessee shall pay the lessor at the end of each six months the proportionate 100 drachmas of the rent, and she shall use, together with her household, the property leased to her as aforesaid for the period without hindrance, after which she shall hand it back clean of refuse, together with the doors and keys of all the rooms which she received, and the wheel of the aforesaid well with a new rope, and the two existing stone troughs for water jars and for a mortar, or she shall pay the value of whatever she fails to hand back, and whatever rent she still owes, with an increase of one half; and the lessor shall have the right of execution upon the lessee and upon all her property; the guard tax and the brick tax being the responsibility of the lessor. The lease is valid. Year 4 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus, Phamenoth 5. I, Apion also called Dionysios, have signed as guardian of my mother, and I have leased, together with the above, the cellars in the court. The term is the same.