Lease of a house in the Cavalry Camp quarter at Oxyrhynchus TM 21975OxyrhynchusA.D. 280

Aurelius Heraklas, son of Zoilos and of his mother Thermouthion, from the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, has leased to Aurelia Chairemon (?), daughter (?) of Heraklammon also called Agathos Daimon, former high priest of the Small Oasis, for a period of six years from the present month Phamenoth of the current 5th year, the house belonging to him in the quarter of the Cavalry Camp, with a forecourt and a yard in which there is a well, and all its fixtures, at a rent per year of 1000 silver drachmas. The lease being guaranteed, let the lessee use all the leased property for the period without hindrance, and let him pay the yearly rent in two instalments, half every six months, and at the end of the period let him hand over the house clean of dung and all filth, together with whatever doors and keys he receives, or let him pay the proper value of whatever he does not hand over, the right of execution lying against the lessee as is fitting. The lease is valid, and the lessee, having been asked the formal question, has agreed. Year 5 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus Gothicus Maximus Persicus Maximus Germanicus Maximus Pius Felix Augustus, Phamenoth 11. (2nd hand) I, Aurelius Epimachos, son of […], former high priest, have leased the aforesaid and will pay the rent as stated above, and having been asked the formal question I have agreed. […]