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Offer to lease an oil-press at Dionysias TM 28616H�ritSecond century

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An offer by Apollonios son of Apollonios to lease for four years an oil-press with its equipment and upper rooms at Dionysias, owned by Achilleus also called Sarapammon and addressed through his guardian Sarapion. The annual rent is paid in olive oil and radish oil, with extra amounts for the Amesysia festival. It dates to the 2nd century AD, from the Fayum.

In English machine translation

To Achilleus also called Sarapammon, through Sarapion, guardian […], from Apollonios son of Apollonios son of Soterichos, from the quarter of the Other Goose-pens. I wish to lease from you for 4 years from the 30th of the present month Mesore, from the property belonging to you in the village of Dionysias, the oil-press in the quarter of Harpokrateion, in which there is a press equipped with axles and two mortars (?) and two machines and a bronze vessel and […], together with all the upper rooms there; and I will pay each year in total 1 metretes 6 choes of strained olive oil and likewise 1 metretes 6 choes of radish oil, providing each year at the Amesysia festival 6 kotylai of radish oil and […] 12 choes and […] 6 kotylai of olive oil and […] 12 choes; and I will pay the aforementioned rent in the month of Phamenoth […] 1 metretes 6 choes of strained olive oil, and in the month of Pauni likewise 1 metretes 6 choes, all by the measure […], with an extra measure of 2 kotylai of oil for each metretes […] […]

The press itself stood at Dionysias, though the papyrus is attributed to Theadelphia. The Amesysia was a local festival of Isis; much of the equipment list and the extra payments is restored.

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 an Oil - Press). 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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Lease of an Oil-Press

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · uninventoried · Second century · H�rit

Proposal addressed to Achilleus, through his guardian Sarapion, by Apollonius for the lease of an oil-press at Dionysias for four years at the rent of one metretes six choes of both olive and raphanus oil with various extra payments.

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p.fay.95

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

Ἀχιλλῖ τῷ καὶ Σαραπάμμωνι διὰ Σαραπίωνος φροντιστοῦ […] παρὰ Ἀπολλωνίου Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ Σωτηρίχου ἀπὸ ἀμφόδου Ἑτέρων Χηνοβοσκίων. βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ ἐφʼ ἔτη δ ἀπὸ τριακάδος τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος μηνὸς Μεσορὴ ἀπὸ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων σοι ἐν κώμῃ Διονυσιάδι ἐλαιουργῖον ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Ἁρπο…