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Lease of a farmstead at Senokomis from the tribune Flavius Apphus TM 22060Oxyrhynchos30. Aug. 499

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A lease contract in which Aurelius Ioannes of the village of Senokomis offers to rent a farmstead with its rooms, near the village bakery, from the landowner Flavius Apphus, a tribune, for four years at one gold solidus a year. It was drawn up at Oxyrhynchus on 30 August AD 499.

In English machine translation

[recto] † In the consulship of Flavius Ioannes, the most glorious and most magnificent general, Thoth 1, indiction 8, at Oxyrhynchus. To Flavius Apphus, the most illustrious tribune, son of Eulogios of most excellent memory, landowner here in the splendid and most splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, Aurelius Ioannes son of Banes, his mother being Senamounia, from the village of Senokomis in the Oxyrhynchite nome, greetings. I voluntarily undertake to lease for a period of four years from the new moon of the present month Thoth of the year 176 145, of the present eighth indiction, from the property belonging to your nobility situated in the same village, on its south side, an entire farmstead and the rooms inside it, near the bakery, facing north, with all its appurtenances and rights, and I will pay as rent yearly one gold solidus, total 1 gold solidus, which rent I will pay each year in half-yearly instalments of one half; and whenever your nobility wishes, I will hand back the same farmstead with the rooms in it and the possession unimpaired, just as I received it. This lease is valid […] […] Aurelius Sarapion son of Timotheos […] ☧ Through me, Kosmas […] indiction 8. [verso] ☧ Lease of Ioannes […]

The years 176 and 145 are Oxyrhynchite era years used for dating. The Greek 'epaulis' denotes a farmstead or rural dwelling compound.

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 · 30. Aug. 499 · Oxyrhynchos

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