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Agreement on the use of a house with a press at Hermopolis TM 21016Hermopolis28. Sept. 283

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Fragmentary agreement from Hermopolis, dated 28 September 283, in which Ammonion permits a woman named Telys to use a house, with a press and an underground room with pillars, for a two-year period, with provisions on removing the press and on expenses. It ends with the standard validity clause, an imperial date under Carinus and Numerianus, and a subscription written for an illiterate party.

In English machine translation

[... lines lost ...] [...] ... [...] [...] ... [...] ... [...] [...] to Ammonion [...] [...] and to Telys and [...] [...] of Hermopolis, in the quarter of the city [...] [...] Ammonion to permit [...] [...] ... [...] the house ... press [...] ... [...] ... Phaophi [...] ... to the request we agree [...] Ammonion has permitted you to [...] [...] ... Telys after the period of two years [...] ... from there the press itself [...] ... there because of the (agreements) on these terms with one another [...] of the (expenses) to be spent on the [...] the pillars in the underground room and on the other ... in time, being made by me ... and the agreement is valid, written in two identical copies so that each of us may have one, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. Year [...] of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Carinus Germanicus Maximus and Marcus Aurelius Numerianus the most illustrious Caesar, Pious, Fortunate, Augusti, Thoth 30. [...] son of ...on: I consent. I, ..., wrote on his behalf because he does not know letters.

The beginning is lost and many lines are broken, so the exact nature of the arrangement (lease or permission to install a press) is uncertain. The press (piesterion) was probably for oil or wine.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contracts, deeds of sale, etc.). 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 · 28. Sept. 283 · Hermopolis

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