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Opening of a lease in which Aurelius Apion, son of a former gymnasiarch and town councillor of Oxyrhynchus, leases a courtyard in the Pammenes' Garden quarter of the city to Aurelius Apollotheon son of Diogenes for four years. The rest of the document is lost.
The text dates itself only to a regnal 'year 4' without naming the emperor; the title 'glorious and most glorious' city and the name Aurelius point to the later 3rd century AD or after. The phrasing in the third person ('has leased') is typical of a lease drawn up as an objective record.
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 a Courtyard). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἐμίσθωσεν Αὐρήλιος Ἀπίων Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ καὶ Ἡρακλᾶ γενομένου γυμνασιάρχου βουλευτοῦ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀπολλοθέωνι Διογένους ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως ἐπὶ χρόνον ἔτη δ ἀπὸ α Φαμενὼθ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος δ ἔτους ἣν ἔχει ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ πόλει ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Παμμένο…
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