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Offer to lease six arouras near Mermertha from a gymnasiarch TM 20890Oxyrhynchos272 - 273 (?)

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An offer to lease land from Oxyrhynchus, in which Aurelius Herakleides son of Pindaros proposes to rent six arouras near the village of Mermertha from the gymnasiarch and councillor Aurelius Severus for one year. The land had been acquired from the imperial treasury after belonging to Horion alias Berenikianos, and the rent is fixed at 24 artabas of wheat, payable in Pauni.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Severus, gymnasiarch, councillor of the splendid and most splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, from Aurelius Herakleides son of Pindaros, his mother being Tauseiris, from the same splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites. I voluntarily undertake to lease for the present 4th year only, from the land belonging to you near the village of Mermertha, out of the holding of Apollonios son of Spartakos, which you acquired by confirmation from the treasury, formerly the property of Horion also called Berenikianos, six arouras or however many they may be, more or less, so as to sow them with wheat, barley or whatever I choose, at a fixed rent of 24 artabas of wheat, all free from every risk, the public dues on the land being the responsibility of you the landowner, who retain ownership of the crops until you receive the rent. If my offer is confirmed, I will pay the rent in the month of Pauni at the threshing floor of the village […] […]

The land had passed to the treasury, apparently by confiscation, and was then sold to Severus by confirmation (kyrōsis). The text breaks off before the closing clauses and date.

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 Land: Two Gymnasiarchs of Oxyrhynchus and Six Arouras Near Mermertha). 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 · 272 - 273 (?) · Oxyrhynchos

Αὐρηλίῳ Σεουήρῳ γυμνασιάρχῳ βουλευτῇ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἡρακλείδου Πινδάρου μητρὸς Ταυσείριος ἀπὸ τὴς αὐτῆς λαμπρᾶς Ὀξυγχειτῶν πόλεως. ἑκουσίως ἐπιδέχομαι μισθώσθαι πρὸς μόνον τὸ ἐνεστὸς δ ἔτος ἀπὸ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων σοι περὶ κώμην Μερμέρθα …