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End of a land lease from Oxyrhynchus dated 19 September 287 under Diocletian and Maximian. The landowner, Aurelia Ptolemais, acknowledges receiving a copy of the contract. The docket on the back identifies it as a lease of land plots belonging to Apollonios, a strategos.
Most of the lease, including its terms, is lost; only the date, the landowner's acknowledgement and the docket survive. The phrase 'also known by whatever other name I am styled' renders a standard formula for alternative names.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lease of Land). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] [… 10 lines lost …] τὴν γεοῦχον [… 4 lines lost …] ἔτους δ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Γαίου Αὐρηλίου Οὐαλερίου Διοκλητιανοῦ καὶ ἔτους γ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Οὐαλερίου Μαξιμιανοῦ Εὐσεβῶν Εὐτυχῶν Σεβαστῶν Θὼθ κα. Αὐρηλία Πτολεμαῒς καὶ ὡς χρηματίζω ἔσχον τούτου τὸ ἴσ…
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