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Lease of a hay-barn at the village of Spania TM 22281Oxyrhynchos12. Apr. 547

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A lease in which Ioannes son of Sarapammon, of the village of Spania, rents a whole south-facing hay-barn from the landowner Flavius Philoxenos son of Ision. It was drawn up at Oxyrhynchus on 12 April 547; the amount of rent and the rest of the contract are lost.

In English machine translation

† In the year after the consulship of Flavius Basilius, the most illustrious, Pharmouthi 17, indiction 10. To Flavius Philoxenos, the most illustrious, son of Ision of pious memory, landowner in the splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites and in the village of Spania, Ioannes, the most admirable, son of Sarapammon of blessed memory, from the same village, greetings. I acknowledge that I have leased and received from your Illustriousness, from the present month Pharmouthi of the current year 223 [192] of the present tenth indiction, from the property belonging to your Illustriousness situated in the same village in the quarter of the great house of your Illustriousness, an entire hay-barn facing south, with all its appurtenances and rights, and that I will pay to your Illustriousness as rent yearly […] […]

The years 223 and 192 are the Oxyrhynchite era years. The 'quarter of the great house' refers to the district around the landowner's estate house in the village.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Miete einer Heuscheuer). 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 · 12. Apr. 547 · Oxyrhynchos

† τοῖς μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαουίου Βασιλείου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου Φαρμοῦθι ιζ ἰνδικτίωνος ι. Φλαουίῳ Φιλοξένῳ τῷ λαμπροτάτῳ υἱῷ τοῦ τῆς εὐλαβοῦς μνήμης Ἰσίωνος γεουχοῦντι ἐν τῇ λαμπρᾷ Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλει καὶ ἐπὶ κώμης Σπανίας Ἰωάννης ὁ θαυμασιώτατος υἱὸς τοῦ τῆς μακαρίας μνήμης Σαραπάμμω…