Lease of a house in the Myrobalanos quarter of Oxyrhynchus to a baker TM 21288Oxyrhynchos25. Febr. 307

In the consulship of our lords Imperator Severus Augustus and Maximinus the most illustrious Caesar. The heirs of Diogenes son of Atas, through Aurelia Taaphynchis and Tapous, from the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, have leased to Aurelius Sarapiades, baker, from the same city, for a period of three years from the new moon of the current month Phaophi of the present year 15, 3, 1, the house belonging to them in the same city in the Myrobalanos quarter, and courtyard and all its appurtenances, at a yearly rent for the same house of 2,400 drachmas. The lease being guaranteed, the lessee shall of necessity pay the yearly rent every six months, half at a time, and shall use the house for the period accordingly, and at the end of the period shall hand over the house clean of dung and all filth, and whatever doors and keys he receives, or shall pay for whatever he does not hand over, if anything [is needed], its value, [the right of execution] being theirs […]