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Lease of a share in a pottery workshop at Hermopolis TM 22764Hermopolites24. Febr. 517

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Beginning of a ten-year lease, in which two villagers from Enseu, Petros and Victor, acting as mutual guarantors, lease from the daughter of the late goldsmith Kollouthos of Hermopolis a one-fourteenth share of a pottery workshop with four vaulted rooms, a kiln and a cistern. It was drawn up in the Hermopolite nome in February 517.

In English machine translation

χμγ [After the consulship] of Flavius Petrus, the most glorious, Mecheir 30, 10th indiction. [To …], the most humble daughter of the late Kollouthos, goldsmith, from the city of the Hermopolites, from the Aurelii Petros, [son of …, mother] Tapsoia, and Victor son of Ioannes, mother Maria, both [originating] from the village of Enseu in the Hermopolite nome. [We acknowledge], being mutual sureties and mutually responsible for one another, willingly and of our own choice, [that we have leased from] you for a period of ten years reckoned from the new moon [of the … month] Epeiph of the present tenth indiction, [your …] fourteenth share of a whole pottery workshop, in whatever [condition it is], with four vaulted rooms and a kiln and a cistern [… and] wooden equipment fitted out with all its fittings and utensils, [with all] the rights pertaining to it, in partnership with your […], the nun (?), for a fourteenth share, and Ioannes […] and Hermes and Aphous and Danielios, soldier, [… lines lost …]

The opening χμγ is a Christian numerical cryptogram, usually read as standing for a phrase such as "Christ born of Mary". The workshop was jointly owned, the other shareholders including a woman described as living as a nun and a soldier named Danielios.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 24. Febr. 517 · Hermopolites

χμγ μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαυίου Πέτρου τοῦ ἐνδοξοτάτου Μεχεὶρ λ ι ἰνδικτίονος […]τῇ εὐτελεστάτῃ θυγατρὶ τοῦ τῆς μακαρίας Κολλούθου […]χρυσοχόου ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑρμουπολιτῶν παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Πέτρου […]μητρὸς Ταψοίας καὶ Βίκτορος Ἰωάννου μητρὸς Μαρίας ἀμφοτέρωνὁρμωμένων ἀπὸ κώμης Ἐνσεῦ τοῦ Ἑρμο…