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Lease of premises with two vaulted rooms and a well at Oxyrhynchus TM 31151OxyrhynchosMitte III

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A lease from Oxyrhynchus in which two men, one of them Dionysios son of Diogenes, rent from a woman for three years a property in the Pammenes' Garden quarter containing two vaulted rooms and a well. The rent is 140 drachmas a year, plus 2 minas of pork monthly and a sucking-pig worth 32 drachmas at the festival of the Demetria.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] son of Sarapion and […] Dionysios son of Diogenes, both from the city of Oxyrhynchus, for a period of three years from the month of Phamenoth of the present […] year, the place belonging to her in the same city of Oxyrhynchus in the quarter of Pammenes' Garden, […] place […], in which there are two vaulted rooms and a well, with all its appurtenances, at a yearly rent of 140 silver drachmas and, each month, pork weighing 2 minas, and each year at the Demetria a sucking-pig worth 32 drachmas. The lease being guaranteed, the lessees shall pay the rent each year, half every six months, and the 2 minas of meat each month, and the sucking-pig at the Demetria; and they shall use the aforesaid premises without hindrance for the period, after which they shall hand them back to the lessor as they received them, the right of execution lying against the lessees […] as is proper. The lease is valid […] having placed (?) […] they acknowledged. Year […] [… lines lost …]

The Demetria was a festival of Demeter; payments in kind at festivals were a common supplement to money rents. The Greek kamara means a vaulted room or chamber.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Immobiliar - Mietsvertrag aus Oxyrhynchos). 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 · Mitte III · Oxyrhynchos

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