An offer by Akoution and Didymos son of Patron, residents of Ptolemais Euergetis and mutually liable, to lease from the nomarchic concessions the beer-selling concession of the village of Euhemeria for one year at 1,300 silver drachmas plus surcharges. It was written in September AD 113.
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[…] from Akoution son of […] and Didymos son of Patron […], registered in the quarter of the First Geese-Keepers, Persians of the Epigone, each guaranteeing the other for payment. We wish to lease from the nomarchic concessions, from the month Sebastos to the fifth intercalary day of Kaisareios of the present seventeenth year of Trajan Caesar the lord, the beer-shop seat (?) of the village of Euhemeria, at a rent of 1,300 silver drachmas, and in addition for the hundredths and the heating (?) […] and the herald's fee, one drachma per mina, we will pay, the payment of which we will make to the […] […] a third part of the rent. We, Akoution […] and Didymos son of Patron, have submitted this, on mutual security, for the 1,300 drachmas and what follows.
I, Akoution, wrote most of it. Year 17 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus […]. I, Didymos son of Patron, have submitted this jointly, on mutual security, as aforesaid.
Nomarchic concessions (asholemata) were state monopoly rights farmed out by the nome administration; the 'seat' (diphros) denotes the licensed beer-selling post. Several surcharges, such as the 'heating' charge, are partly restored and uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtangebot). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.