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Offer to lease a vineyard addressed to a gymnasiarch TM 21407Oxyrhynchos oder Hermopolis9. Sept. 296

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Two fragments of a written offer to lease, apparently vineyard land with irrigation basins, addressed to a gymnasiarch of a city. The lessee, son of a woman named Helene, undertakes labour such as clearing weeds and grass from the vines. It is dated 9 September 296, at Oxyrhynchus or Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

[Fragment A] In the consulship of our lords Imperator Diocletian Augustus for the 6th time and Constantius the most noble Caesar for the 2nd time. To […], gymnasiarch of the glorious […] […] business agent (?) […] […] whose mother is Helene, from the same city […] I wish […] to lease for […] years […] […] of the current 13th and 12th year […] [Fragment B] […] on condition that I, according to certain private […] the basins, and during the summer […] only the same basins […] and I shall perform the service […] of all that you will deposit for each […], and nothing at all in respect of […], and if I am found the total […] having made before the […] to be determined [… 6 lines lost …] […] vine […] so that not […] of all weeds and grass […] and by me as is proper. The offer is valid […] other offers, but not newly planted […] 13th and 12th year of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti and 5th year of our lords Constantius and Maximian the most noble Caesars, Thoth 12.

The document is an epidoche, a formal offer to lease, which the text itself declares valid. The 'basins' (phialai) are probably irrigation basins around vines.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Two fragments of a 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 9. Sept. 296 · Oxyrhynchos oder Hermopolis

[FrA] ἐπὶ ὑπάτων κυρίων ἡμῶν Αὐτοκράτορος Διοκλητιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ τὸ ϛ καὶ Κωνσταντίου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος τὸ β […]… γυμνασιάρχῳ τῆς λαμπρᾶς[…] […]υ πραγματευτοῦ […] […] […]μητρὸς Ἑλένης ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως[…] βούλομαι[…] μισθώσασθαι ἐπʼ ἐτ[…] […] […]τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ιγ ἔτους …