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Lease of property in the quarter of Pammenes' Garden at Oxyrhynchus TM 22059Oxyrhynchos19. Aug. 476

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Beginning of a lease offer in which Flavius Paulos, a courier (cursor) on the governor's staff at Oxyrhynchus, undertakes to rent part of a property owned by the palatine official Flavius Eulogios, son of Horion, in the quarter of Pammenes' Garden, starting from 1 Thoth. It is dated 19 August 476 at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

[recto] † In the year after the consulship of Leo the Younger, of divine allotment, Mesore 26, indiction 15. To Flavius Eulogios, the most devoted palatinus, son of Horion of blessed memory, from the splendid and most splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, Flavius Paulos, cursor of the governor's staff in this city, greetings. I willingly undertake to lease from the new moon of the coming month Thoth of the incoming year 153 (and) 122, of the auspicious fifteenth indiction, from the property belonging to your excellency situated in this city in the quarter of Pammenes' Garden near the gate […] […] [verso] Lease of Flavius Paulos, cursor […]

The years 153 and 122 are the Oxyrhynchite era years used for dating. A cursor was a courier or messenger in the provincial governor's office; a palatinus was an official of the imperial finance administration.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 19. Aug. 476 · Oxyrhynchos

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