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Lease of two rooms in the Mouiarion quarter of Arsinoe by a bath attendant TM 41026Arsinoiton Polis12. Aug. 633

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A lease in which Aurelius Gerontios, an attendant at the public bath of Arsinoe, rents two rooms or spaces in a house in the Mouiarion quarter from the comes Flavius Gerontios, son of Kollouthos, for as long as the owner wishes. The yearly rent is three quarters of a gold solidus, divided between the two spaces. It was drawn up at Arsinoe in AD 633 under the emperor Heraclius.

In English machine translation

[recto] † In the name of the Lord and Master Jesus Christ, our God and Saviour, in the reign of our most pious and most humane master Flavius Heraclius, the eternal Augustus and Emperor, year 23, Mesore 19, 7th indiction, in Arsinoe. To Flavius Gerontios, the most admired comes, son of Kollouthos of illustrious memory, from the city of the Arsinoites, Aurelius Gerontios, bath attendant of the public bath, from the same city, son of Phoibammon, living in the quarter of Mouiarion, greetings. I acknowledge that I have leased from your illustriousness, from the property belonging to it in this city and in the same quarter, inside the hamlet there facing west, in a house opening to the east, in the oven(-house) (?), two places, open, one to the north and the other to the east, with their rights, for as long a time as you wish, from the past month of Pauni at the end of the past sixth indiction; and I shall provide to it as rent for them yearly 1/2 1/4 of a gold solidus, gold solidus 1/2 1/4, as current, that is for one place 1/3 of a solidus and for the other place 1/3 1/12 of a solidus. The lease is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius Gerontios, bath attendant of the public bath, son of Phoibammon: everything is satisfactory to me as set out above. † † Through me, Ioustos (written in Latin letters) † through me, Ioustos † [verso] † Lease of 2 places in the quarter of Mouiarion, made by Aurelius Gerontios, bath attendant, to Flavius Gerontios, the most admired comes †

A periches (here 'bath attendant') was a bath worker who poured water over bathers. The notary Ioustos signed his Greek name formula in Latin letters.

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_6B

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

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