Lease of a two-room workshop under the southern colonnade at Oxyrhynchus TM 22065Oxyrhynchos24. Mai 505

[recto] † After the consulship of Flavius Cethegus, the most glorious, Pachon 29, indiction 13. To the most admirable Apollos, son of Joseph of devout memory, from the illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, Aurelius Daniel son of John, his mother being Heraeis, shopkeeper from the same city, greetings. I voluntarily undertake to lease, from the first of the coming month Pauni of the present year 181/150, of the thirteenth indiction, at the beginning of the fourteenth indiction, from the property belonging to your excellency situated in this city in the quarter of Pses, under the southern public colonnade, an entire workshop having two rooms, one inside the other, whose outer door faces north, and that I shall pay as rent each year 1 gold solidus less 2 carats on the private standard, total 1 gold solidus less 2 carats, which rent I shall pay each year, half every six months, and whenever you wish I shall hand back the same workshop with its occupancy undamaged. The lease, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. Aurelius Daniel […] I have made the lease […] [verso] † Lease of Daniel, shopkeeper, rent 1 gold solidus less 2 carats.