Lease
Beginning of a contract of lease, probably some house property (as in other lease documents of the archive of Flavius Apphous' family)
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21392
Beginning of a lease by Anoup, cumin-seller, from Flavius Apphous TM 21392Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, EgyptJune/July 499 A.D.
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Opening of a lease contract in which Aurelius Anoup, a cumin-seller of Oxyrhynchus, offers to lease property, probably a house or part of one, from the illustrious Flavius Apphous, son of the late Eulogios. It was written in Epeiph (June/July) AD 499 at Oxyrhynchus; the body of the contract is lost.
In English machine translation
[recto]
† After the consulship of Flavii Ioannes and Paulinus, the most glorious, Epeiph […], at the beginning of the 8th indiction (?) in the 7th indiction.
To Flavius Apphous, the most illustrious, son of Eulogios of blessed memory, from this illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, Aurelius Anoup son of […], his mother being An…[…], cumin-seller, from the same city, greetings. I willingly undertake to lease […]
[… ? lines lost …]
[verso]
† Lease of Anoup […]
The date formula 'indiction 7, beginning of 8' marks the overlap of two indiction years in the month Epeiph. The leased object is lost; a house property is suggested by other leases in Flavius Apphous' family archive.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease). 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.mich.15.731
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