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Offer to lease a mill at Theadelpheia TM 9449Euhemeria? (Arsinoites)AD 101/2

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An offer to lease a working mill at Theadelpheia in the Arsinoite nome, made by two men from Euhemeria, Persians of the Epigone, to the mill's owner. The lease is for two years from Trajan's fifth year at 180 drachmas a year plus bread and four cocks, with obligations to grind set quantities of grain free of charge.

In English machine translation

[…] son of […]on son of Papous, […] son of Onnophris, from the village of Euhemeria, Persian(s) of the Epigone. I wish to lease the working mill belonging to you in the village of Theadelpheia, in which there are five Theban millstones with tables and handles, and four stone mortars, and the two rooms attached to it […] and the remaining equipment of the mill, for two years from the present fifth year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, at a total annual rent of 180 silver drachmas, and as extras each year 1 artaba of loaves and 4 full-grown cocks, free from all deductions and risks. And each year I will grind and mill whatever 11 monthly rations of bread you choose, without the grain charge, and I will grind and mill each year without wages 3 artabas of fine wheat flour (semidalis) and 1 1/2 artabas of white wheat, the annual public [taxes] on the mill being […] your responsibility, and […] […] […] [… lines lost …]

"Persians of the Epigone" is a legal status designation of Ptolemaic origin, not an ethnic description. One catalogue title wrongly describes the text as concerning a mule rather than a mill.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Urkunde über Pacht einer Mühle). 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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bgu.4.1067

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 101 - 102 · Euhemeria? (Arsinoites)

[…]…ωνος τοῦ Παποῦτος […]…ς τοῦ Ὀννώφρεως τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Εὐημερίας Πέρσου τῆς ἐπιγονῆς. βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι τὸ ὑπάρχον σοι ἐν κώμῃ Θεαδελφείᾳ μύλαιον ἐνεργόν, ἐν ᾧ μῦλοι Θηβαικοὶ πέντε σὺν τραπέζαις καὶ κώπαις καὶ ὅλμοι λίθινοι τέσσαρες , καὶ τοὺς προσόντας οἴκους δύο εἰσ…νακα δι…