Lease of a room in Herakleopolis by a beekeeper TM 35900Herakleopolis (Herakleopolites, Ägypten)Mitte VII

A lease from Herakleopolis in the mid-7th century AD in which Aurelius Phoibammon, a beekeeper, rents an exedra (a room or alcove) on the second floor of a house near the church of Kypheas for 2 gold carats a year, beginning in Pharmouthi of a 7th indiction. The lessor is apparently a notary named on the docket; the text was written for the illiterate lessee by Elias son of Petros.

In English machine translation

An exedra here is a room or recess within a house, without an exact English equivalent. The lease runs at the lessor's discretion ('for as long as you wish'), common in Byzantine room leases.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Mietsvertrag). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.