Offer to lease rights to requisition hides and cattle at Oxyrhynchus TM 22473Oxyrhynchos198 - 199 (?)

An offer from Patrobios son of Diokles of Oxyrhynchus to Aurelius Victor, procurator of Hermes, to lease for five years the rights to purchase hides and cattle by requisition in the city and nome of Oxyrhynchus. Only the opening survives; later fragments mention interest and capital. Oxyrhynchus, probably AD 198-199.

In English machine translation

The phrase rendered 'compulsory sale' (en symprasei) refers to requisitioning goods for the state at fixed prices; whether this was a tax farm or a requisitioning right is uncertain. Hermes here is probably a person or estate whose procurator Victor was; the reference is unclear.

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 Farmed Taxes or Requisitioning Rights). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.