Lease of part of a house in the East City quarter of Hermopolis TM 35717HermopolisV

[recto] [… lines lost …] To Aurelia […] daughter of Pinoution, the most well-born, from the city of the Hermopolitans, from Aurelius Ioannes son of Apion, who writes slowly, from the same city. I acknowledge that I have voluntarily and of my own free will leased from you, for whatever period you wish, reckoned from today, the above-written day, which is Tybi 7 of the present fifteenth indiction, the part belonging and pertaining to you of an entire house with all its rights, that is, the part of the same house falling and pertaining to you: half share of the bedroom on the first floor facing north, and half share of one vaulted room in the basement facing east, and half share of the […] on the roof, in common with Eurasia daughter of Ioannes for the remaining half share of the same places, to complete these; and the part falling to you of the courtyard and the well and the gateway and the pessos and the roof and the open court and the entrance and exit and way up and way down and all the other necessary appurtenances of the entire house, situated in the same city of the Hermopolitans in the quarter of East City, for my use and dwelling, at a rent of 2,800 talents of silver per year, which rent I will pay you at the end of each year without delay; and whenever you wish to have them, I will hand back to you the same places with doors as I received them. The lease is valid and guaranteed, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius Ioannes son of Apion, the aforesaid, have leased as stated above. I, Aurelius […]es son of Menas, from Hermopolis, witness the lease, having heard it from the party who made it. I, Flavius […], witness the lease, having heard it from the party who made it. † [verso] Lease of Ioannes son of Apion […]