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Offer to lease a share of land near Sepho TM 22142Oxyrhynchos3. Sept. 369

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Opening of a lease offer in which Aurelius, son of Pasalymis, from the village of Sepho, proposes to lease for one year a third share of land belonging to a councillor of Oxyrhynchus. It was written on 3 September 369 at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Valentinianus, the most noble son of our lord Valens, and of Flavius Victor, the most illustrious general, Thoth 6. To Aurelius […]inus, councillor of the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, from Aurelius […], son of Pasalymis, from the village of Sepho of the same nome, greetings. I voluntarily undertake to lease, for the current year 46 and 15 only, of the auspicious 13th indiction, from the land belonging to you in the tax-district of the same village, from the Semion […], your third share, 1 1/16 1/32 aroura (?), so as to sow and cultivate (?) these with whatever crops I choose […] […] […]

The year '46 and 15' is the Oxyrhynchite era dating; the rest of the lease terms, including rent, is lost. The land measurement is partly restored and uncertain.

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 Land). 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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p.oxy.63.4379

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 3. Sept. 369 · Oxyrhynchos

ὑπατείας Οὐαλεντινιανοῦ τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου υἱοῦ τοῦ δεσπότου ἡμῶν Οὐάλεντος καὶ Φλαουΐου Οὐΐκτωρος τοῦ λαμπροτάτου στρατηλάτου, Θὼθ ϛ. Αὐρηλίῳ[…]…ινου πολιτευομένῳ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτηςὈξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως παρὰ Αὐρηλίου[…]Πασαλύμιος ἀπὸ κώμης Σεφὼ τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ χαίρειν. ἑκου…