One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 30187

Offer to lease addressed to a former gymnasiarch of Oxyrhynchus TM 30187OxyrhynchosIII

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Opening of a lease offer addressed by two men of Oxyrhynchus, Aurelius Peneroous and Aurelius Horion, to a former gymnasiarch of Oxyrhynchus who was also gymnasiarch of Antinoopolis. The text breaks off just as the terms of the lease begin, so the property and conditions are lost.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius […]eides also called Dio[…], former gymnasiarch of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, gymnasiarch of the illustrious city of the Antinoites […] and however he is styled, from the Aurelii Peneroous son of Heraklios, mother Tsenyria, and Horion son of Horion son of …ytes, mother Sinthonis, both from the city of Oxyrhynchus. We voluntarily undertake to lease […] […]

The document takes the form of a lease offer, in which the prospective tenants address the landowner and declare that they "voluntarily undertake to lease". The landowner's name is only partly preserved.'

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contratto d’affitto). 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 · III · Oxyrhynchos

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