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Division by lot of the usufruct of a pigeon-house at the Perkops vineyard TM 21781Oxyrhynchos6. Dez. 214

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Agreement from Oxyrhynchus in AD 214 among co-owners of a pigeon-house on the vineyard estate called Perkops, dividing its yearly yield by lot over four years. The parties are Aurelius Andronikos alias Mithres, Aurelia Dionysias alias Chairemonis (through her husband, a councillor), and two minor sisters represented by their mother; the pigeon dung is to be used on the vineyard.

In English machine translation

Mutually agree with one another Marcus Aurelius Andronikos also called Mithres, and however he is styled, and Aurelia Dionysias also called Chairemonis, through her husband Aurelius Ammonios, gymnasiarch-designate, councillor of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, and Didyme also called Apollonia and Letodoris also called Dionysotheonis, both minors, through their mother Ptolema, daughter of Dionysotheon, former gymnasiarch of the same city of the Oxyrhynchites, she too acting through Epikrates son of Didymos, that they have divided among themselves the usufruct of the conspicuous productive pigeon-house which they own in equal shares in the farmstead of their vineyard estate called Perkops, for a further period of four years from Thoth 1 of the present 23rd year, and that by lot the minors have received the usufruct for two years, the present 23rd year and the 25th year, Aurelia Dionysias also called Chairemonis that of the coming 24th year, and Aurelius Andronikos also called Mithres likewise that of the 26th year; and […] each party […] the […] period […] him the […] the dung to go each year to their aforesaid vineyard estate, and each party shall hand over the same pigeon-house in productive condition to the other on the 1st of the intercalary days, neither party having the right to intrude on the other within his aforesaid period. This agreement, written in three copies so that each party may have one, is valid. Year 23 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Parthicus Maximus Britannicus Maximus Germanicus Maximus Pius Augustus, month Hadrianos 10. I, Aurelius Ammonios, and however I am styled, consent to the joint agreement as aforesaid. […]

Pigeon dung was a valued fertilizer, which is why it is reserved for the vineyard. Hadrianos is the Oxyrhynchite honorific name for the month Choiak.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Division of Usufruct of a Pigeon - house). 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 · 6. Dez. 214 · Oxyrhynchos

ὁμολογοῦσι ἀλλήλοις Μάρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀνδρόνικος ὁ καὶ Μίθρης καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει καὶ Αὐρηλία Διονυσιὰς ἡ καὶ Χαιρημονὶς διὰ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς Αὐρηλίου Ἀμμωνίου ἀποδεδειγμένου γυμνασιάρχου βουλευτοῦ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως καὶ Διδύμη ἡ καὶ Ἀπολλωνία καὶ Λητοδωρὶς ἡ καὶ Διονυσοθεωνὶς ἀμφότερ…