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Offer to lease a house with courtyard in the Phrourion East quarter of Hermopolis, to be used for stabling animals, at an annual rent in silver. The owner is Melas, a beneficiarius, named in the docket on the back; the lessees came from a village.
The double indiction reckoning (fourth, that is eighteenth) is typical of the early 4th century. A beneficiarius was a soldier or official seconded to special duties.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Affitto di casa). 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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