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Lease of an eighth share of a house with cellar at Hermopolis TM 20829Hermopolites26. Jan. - 24. Febr. 566

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A lease in which Aurelius, son of Menas and Kyra, of Hermopolis rents from Aurelia Sophia, daughter of Paulos, her eighth share of a house with a cellar for his own residence, for an annual rent in gold carats. It was drawn up in Mecheir of the 14th indiction, AD 566, in the Hermopolite nome, and signed for the illiterate lessee by a scribe.

In English machine translation

† After the consulship of Flavius Basilius, the most glorious, year twenty-four, Mecheir […], 14th indiction. To Aurelia Sophia, daughter of Paulos, mother […], from the city of the Hermopolites, from Aurelius […], son of Menas, mother Kyra, from the same city, greetings. I acknowledge that I have willingly and of my own accord leased from you, for as long a time as I have the use of the eighth part of a house listed below, reckoned from the new moon of the present month Mecheir of the present fourteenth indiction, the eighth part belonging to you of an entire house, in whatever condition it is, with the cellar and all its rights […] of the heirs of Kallinikos […] eighth part of the entire house […] […] […] in the same city of the Hermopolites in the quarter […], for my use and habitation, at a rent for the same eighth part of the house of […] carats of gold per year, which rent I will pay you at the end of each year without delay, and whenever you wish to have it, I will return to you the same eighth part of the house with doors and keys as I received it. The lease is valid and secure, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius […], son of Menas, the aforementioned, have leased as stated above. † I, Aurelius […], son of Tiberios, wrote on his behalf, as he does not know letters. † … […]

The date is reckoned by the years after the consulship of Basilius (AD 541), here year 24. The amount of the rent is lost, and much of the house description is restored.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Mietvertrag über den achten Teil eines Hauses mit Keller). 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 · 26. Jan. - 24. Febr. 566 · Hermopolites

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