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
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
[r] † ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν, βασιλείας τοῦ εὐσεβεστάτου καὶ φιλανθρωποτάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου Φλαυίου Ἡρακλείου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους κγ Μεσορὴ ιθ ζ ἰνδικτίονος ἐν Ἀρσινόῃ. Φλαυίῳ Γεροντίῳ τῷ περιβλέπτῳ κόμετ…