Lease of a Camel-Stable
Contract by which a priest leases for three years premises which had been used for keeping camels, and were now to be turned into a fowl-house
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Lease of part of a camel-stable for use as a fowl-house TM 22195Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt173 A.D.
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A lease contract from Oxyrhynchus in AD 173, in which Thonis, a priest of several temples, leases for three years part of a former camel-stable in the Hermaion quarter to the freedman Dionysios also called Capito, to be used as a fowl-house. The rent was paid in silver plus yearly extras of poultry and eggs.
In English machine translation
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Thonis son of Phatreus, grandson of Harthonis, from Oxyrhynchus city, priest and pterophoros and sacred sculptor of Thoeris and Isis and Sarapis and of the temple of the god Augustus Caesar and of the gods sharing the temple, and calf-sealer, has leased to Dionysios also called Capito, freedman of Ploution son of Ophelion, from the same city, for a period of three years from the new moon of Phaophi of the coming fourteenth year of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord, from what he owns in the Hermaion quarter, of the camel-stable […] called […], the 7 arouras in the same settlement, for a fowl-house […], into which the lessee shall enter and exit through the door on the west in the northern part of the same camel-stable, with the right to share the use of the well therein without hindrance, at a yearly rent of […] silver drachmas and as extras each year […] fowls […] full-grown laying hens, full-grown cocks […] eggs […]; and apart from these also to the slaves (?) […] to Thonis […]
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the guard's fee and the brickwork being the responsibility of Thonis. The lease being guaranteed, let the lessee pay […]
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The pterophoros ('feather-bearer') and moschosphragistes ('calf-sealer', who certified sacrificial animals) were Egyptian priestly offices. The 'seven arouras' is odd for a stable and the reading of the area unit is uncertain in context.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pacht von sieben Aruren eines Kamelstalles, die als Hühnerstall genutzt werden sollen). 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.mich.18.788
[1] ἐμίσθωσεν Θῶνις Φατρέως τοῦ Ἁρθώνιος ἀπ’ Ὀξυρύνχων πόλεως ἱερεὺς καὶ πτεραφόρος καὶ ἱεροτέκτων Θοήριδος καὶ Ἴσιδος καὶ Σαράπιδος καὶ ναοῦ θεοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Καίσαρος καὶ τῶν συννάων θεῶν καὶ μοσχοσφραγιστὴς Διονυσίῳ τῷ καὶ Καπίτωνι ἀπελευθέρῳ Πλουτίωνος Ὠφελίωνος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλ…