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Lease of a house with a courtyard in the North Street quarter of Oxyrhynchus, granted by a former prytanis also called Dionysios together with the heirs of Aristous to Aurelius Tho[…], son of Chairemon. The lease runs for five years from 1 Phamenoth of year 5, for a yearly rent in silver drachmas whose amount is lost.
The prytanis was the president of the town council. The opening names and the end of the contract, including the rent amount, are lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Hausmietvertrag). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἐμίσθωσαν[…] ὁ καὶ Διονύσιος[…] καὶ πρυτανεύσας[…] Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως καὶ οἱ κληρονόμοι Ἀριστοῦτος[…] Αὐρηλίῳ Θω[…] Χαιρήμονος …[…]ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως, ἐπὶ χρόνον ἔτη πέντε ἀπὸ α Φαμενὼθ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ε ἔτους, ἀπὸ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων αὐτοῖς ἐν τῇ μητροπόλει οἰκοπέδων ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Βορ…
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