An offer to lease in which Aurelius Sarapion proposes to rent a cattle yard with two storerooms for chaff and fodder in the city of Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) for five years at 100 drachmas a month. The owner handles structural repairs and the lessee daily upkeep; it is dated 15 March 306.
In English machine translation
[…] of the quarter of Apollonios Hierakios, from Aurelius Sarapion, whose mother is […]apea, from the quarter of Bithynians Other Places. I wish to lease from you the cattle yard belonging to you in the metropolis in the quarter of Phremei, in which there are two storerooms for storing chaff and fodder, for a period of five years from the present month Phamenoth, at a rent each month of one hundred silver drachmas, 100 drachmas, free of deductions and risk; and it shall not be permitted to me within the period to abandon the lease in any way. The new repair or rebuilding of the yard and the storerooms shall be your responsibility as the owner, while the detailed care and attention shall be my responsibility as the lessee. I will pay the rent […] month on the fifth without fail, and after the period I will hand over the yard and the storerooms with the doors fitted to them and the outer key, just as I received them, if you agree to lease, and having been asked the formal question I consented.
Year 14 and 2 of our lords Constantius and Maximianus Augusti and Severus and Maximinus the most illustrious Caesars, Phamenoth 19.
I, Aurelius Sarapion, have leased as stated above. I, Aurelius Polion, wrote on his behalf since he is illiterate.
The beginning, with the owner's name, is lost. The document takes the form of a lessee's offer ("I wish to lease"), a common late Roman lease format.
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.