Sublease of a ground-floor room in a house at Oxyrhynchus TM 22024Oxyrhynchos22. Nov. 496

[recto] 643. † After the consulship of Flavius Beator, the most glorious, Hathyr 26, indiction 5. Aurelius Apollos son of Martyrios, from the splendid and most splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, flax-dresser (?), to Aurelius Ioannes son of Anouthios, ⟦…⟧ lessee (?) of the public bath ⟦…⟧ of the same city, from the same ⟦city⟩, greeting. I voluntarily undertake to lease, from the new moon of the next month Choiak of the present year 173 = 142, of the fifth indiction, out of what you hold on lease from a house situated in the same city in the quarter of the house of Ioannes Ar[…], an entire ground-floor place facing south, with its fittings and all rights; and I will pay as rent annually one third of a gold solidus, total 1/3 gold solidus, which rent I will pay each year, half every six months, without delay; and whenever you wish I will hand back to you the same place as I received it, in possession. The lease, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. [verso] † Lease of Apollos son of Martyrios, flax-dresser (?).