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Opening of a lease in which Aurelius Thomas, a tax collector of Arsinoe, leases a farmstead (epaulis) from the landowner Flavius Ploutammon, a former drill-officer of the Transtigritani regiment. It is dated 23 March 498 at Arsinoe in the Fayum; the terms of the lease are lost.
A campiductor was a military drill instructor; the Transtigritani were a unit originally raised from beyond the Tigris. An epaulis is a farmstead or farm building with its yard.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as keiner). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] † μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν τοῦ δεσπότου ἡμῶν Φλαουίου Ἀναστασίου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου τὸ β Φαμενὼθ κζ ϛ ἰνδικτίονος. Φλαουίῳ Πλουτάμμωνι ἀπὸ καμπιδουκτόρων ἀριθμοῦ τῶν γενναιοτάτων Τρανστιγριτανῶν υἱῷ τοῦ τῆς μακαρίας μνήμης Θεοφίλου γεουχοῦντι ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀρσινοειτῶν πόλεως Αὐρήλιος Θ…
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