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Lease of land (?) from Phoibammon son of Triadelphos at Aphrodite TM 21423Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)1. Mai - 14. Nov. 570

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Opening of a lease contract in which a man from the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, son of Syrion, leases property, probably land, from Aurelius Phoibammon son of Triadelphos, starting with the crops of the fifth indiction. It is dated to the fifth year of Emperor Justin II, AD 570.

In English machine translation

643 (chi-mu-gamma) In the reign and consulship of our most divine master Flavius Justinus, the eternal Augustus and Emperor, year five, […] of the fourth indiction. [Aurelius (?)] […]eit, whose father is Syrion and whose mother is […]ria, lessee, from the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, to Aurelius Phoibammon son of Triadelphos, the most admirable taxpayer from the same village, greetings. I acknowledge that I have willingly and of my own choice leased from you […] period, from the crops of the fifth indiction, God willing, the existing […] [… 4 lines lost …]

The heading χμγ (643) is a Christian isopsephic symbol often written at the top of documents. The leased object is lost, so identification as a land lease is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of lease of land (?) from Phoibammon, Triadelphos’ son). 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 · 1. Mai - 14. Nov. 570 · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

χμγ Βασιλείας καὶ ὑπατείας τοῦ θειοτάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου Φλαουίου Ἰουστίνου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους πέμπτου […]τετάρτης ἰνδικτίονος. […]…ειτ ἐκ πατρὸς Συρίωνος μητρὸς[…]ρίας, μισθωτὴς ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ Ἀνταιοπολίτου νομοῦ Αὐρηλίῳ Φοιβάμμωνι υἱῷ Τριαδέλφου τῷ …