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Offer to lease a camel stable at Dionysias TM 9147Dionysias (Arsinoites)29. Okt. - 27. Nov. 167

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An offer to lease a camel stable with its adjoining premises in the southern lane of the village of Dionysias for four years at 24 silver drachmas a year, payable in two instalments. The lessee, Herakleides, undertakes to return the stable clean, keeping the animals' dung for himself. It was written in Hathyr of year 8 of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (AD 167) at Dionysias in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[…] […] […] of the metropolis. I wish to lease from you for four years from the first day of Hathyr of the present 8th year a camel stable together with the places belonging to it in the village of Dionysias, in the southern lane, formerly leased by Isarous, at a rent for the whole per year, all charges included, of 24 drachmas of silver, which I will pay in two equal instalments, and I will pay nothing else whatsoever beyond the aforesaid; and after the term I will hand over the camel stable and the places free of filth, with the doors fitted to them […], the dung of the animals belonging to me. (2nd hand?) I, Herakleides […], agree on the aforesaid terms. Year 8 of Antoninus and Verus, the lords Augusti, Armeniaci, Medici, Parthici Maximi, Hathyr […] […]

The beginning with the addressees and the lessee's description is lost. Lane translates laura, a street or quarter of the village; the clause on the dung means it was to belong to the lessee.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 29. Okt. - 27. Nov. 167 · Dionysias (Arsinoites)

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