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Lease of a room in the Treasurers' quarter at Arsinoe TM 41025Arsinoiton Polis

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A Byzantine lease from Arsinoe in which Aurelia Maria, daughter of the vegetable seller Aion, rents a south-facing room in the Treasurers' (or Lower) quarter from Aurelia Charis, daughter of Eudoxia. The rent is one third of a gold solidus a year, and the lease runs for as long as the owner wishes.

In English machine translation

[recto] † In the name of the holy and consubstantial Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, and of our lady the holy Mother of God and of all the saints. Pharmouthi 7, [15th] indiction, at Arsinoe. Aurelia Maria, daughter of Aion, vegetable seller, from the city of the Arsinoites, to Aurelia Charis, daughter of Eudoxia, from the same city, greetings. I acknowledge that I have leased from you, from the property belonging to you in this city in the quarter of the Treasurers, or the Lower quarter, one room opening to the south, with all its rights, for as long a time as you wish, from the new moon of the present month Pharmouthi of the present fifteenth indiction, I the lessee paying as its rent yearly one third of a gold solidus, as current, gold solidus 1/3, as current. The lease is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Maria daughter of Aion, the present lease is satisfactory to me as set out above. † Through me, Cosmas. [verso] † Lease of one room in the quarter of the Treasurers, or the Lower quarter, by Aurelia Maria daughter of Aion […] to Aurelia Charis.

The notary Cosmas signs in Latin letters ('di emu', 'through me'), a common Byzantine notarial practice. The word topos, here 'room', can also mean a space or premises.

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.

p.lond.1.113_6A

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

[r] † ἐν ὀνόματι τῆς ἁγίας καὶ ὁμοουσίου τριάδος πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ καὶ ἁγίου πνεύματος καὶ τῆς δεσποίνης ἡμῶν τῆς ἁγίας θεοτόκου καὶ πάντων τῶν ἁγίων Φαρμοῦθι ζ ιε ἰνδικτίονος ἐν Ἀρσίνοῃ Αὐρηλία Μαρία θυγάτηρ Ἀίωνος λαχανοπράτου ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀρσινοιτῶν πόλεως Αὐρηλίᾳ Χάριτος θυγατρὶ Εὐδ…