Offer to lease land for flax cultivation from Aurelia Eutropia TM 20895Oxyrhynchos7. Nov. 315
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An offer to lease land from Oxyrhynchus in which Aurelius Dioskoros undertakes to rent a share of about 6 3/8 arouras near the Isieion of Panga from Aurelia Eutropia, daughter of a former town councillor, for growing flax. Rent is half in silver (4 talents per aroura) and half in a share of the flax crop, with the lessee keeping the linseed; dated November 315.
In English machine translation
The 'current 10th and 8th year' refers to regnal years of Constantine and Licinius. The subscription records the landowner (through an agent) acknowledging receipt of a copy.
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). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.45.3255
ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίνου καὶ Λικιννίου Σεβαστῶν τὸ δ[…] Αὐρηλίᾳ Εὐτροπίῃ θυγατρὶ Θεοδώρου τοῦ καὶ Χαιρήμονος γυμνασιαρχήσαντος πρυτανεύσαντος γενομένου βουλευτοῦ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Διοσκόρου Ἀμμωνίου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. ἑ…