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Lease of three rooms in the Cavalry Camp quarter of Oxyrhynchus TM 22058Oxyrhynchos28. März 430

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A lease in which Aurelia Didyme, daughter of Horos, acting without a guardian, rents from Flavius Flavianus three rooms (two dining rooms and a single room in the courtyard) in the Cavalry Camp quarter of Oxyrhynchus for half a gold solidus a year. A scribe signs for her because she is illiterate; it is dated 28 March 430.

In English machine translation

[recto] After the consulship of Flavius Florentius and Flavius Dionysius, the most illustrious, Pharmouthi 2. To Flavius Flavianus son of Agathinos, […] from the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, from Aurelia Didyme daughter of Horos, from the same city, acting without a guardian. I voluntarily undertake to lease from the present month Pharmouthi of the current year 106/75, of the present thirteenth indiction, the three places belonging to you in the same city in the quarter of the Cavalry Camp, in their entirety: a dining room and another dining room situated above the arch, and in the courtyard a single room, with all fittings; and I will pay you as rent for them yearly half a gold solidus, which I will necessarily pay each year, half every six months; and whenever you wish I will hand back to you the same places as I received them. The lease, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelia Didyme daughter of Horos, acting without a guardian as she herself affirmed, the aforesaid, have leased the aforesaid places and will pay the rent as aforesaid. I, Aurelius Theodoros son of Theodoros, wrote on her behalf, she being present, as she does not know letters. Through me […] … [verso] Lease of Didyme daughter of Horos, three places, rent 1/2 solidus.

The year 106/75 follows the Oxyrhynchite era count used in late antique documents. The rooms called symposion are dining or reception rooms.”

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 House - property). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.oxy.16.1957

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 28. März 430 · Oxyrhynchos

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