Offer to lease fishing rights in a canal near Oxyrhynchus TM 26643OxyrhynchosII

An offer by Sarapas son of Athenaios to lease the right to catch the fish of a canal and its sluice gates, addressed to Dionysios and his fellow overseers of the fisheries of Oxyrhynchus. The rent in drachmas and a jar of produce is only partly preserved; the rest of the document is lost. It dates to the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

The epiteretai were overseers of state revenues, here of the fisheries, who leased out fishing rights. The canal and outlet place names and the rent figure are uncertain because of damage to the text.

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 Fishing 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.