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Offer to lease a house in the Dionysios Topoi quarter TM 26943Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

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An offer by Aurelius Herakleides, of the Boutapheion quarter, to lease from Aurelius Ammonianos a house with court and yard in the Dionysios Topoi quarter of the metropolis for six years at 26 silver drachmas a month. The owner is to bear repairs, the tenant upkeep, and the house is to be returned clean with doors and keys.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Ammonianos, also styled however he is styled, from Aurelius Herakleides son of Ptolemaios son of […], from the Boutapheion quarter. I wish to lease from you the house belonging to you in the metropolis in the quarter of Dionysios Topoi, with a court (atrium) and a yard, for 6 years from the present month Pauni, at a total rent each month of 26 drachmas of silver, any repair needed or rebuilding from new being the responsibility of you the owner Ammonios (?), while the care and supervision is the responsibility of me the lessee. And I will pay the rent […] on the fifth without hindrance, and after the term I will hand back the house clean of all filth, together with the doors and keys in place, if it seems good to you to lease.

The owner is addressed as Ammonianos but later named Ammonios in the text, likely a scribal inconsistency. The clause on when the rent is paid is largely illegible.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtangebot auf ein Haus). 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 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

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