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Offer to lease the granary of Soknopaios at the hamlet of Pisais TM 9570Herakleia (Arsinoites)

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An offer to lease, addressed by Satabous of Herakleia to the two presidents of the hamlet of Pisais, for one year's lease of the granary of the god Soknopaios with its five storerooms, tower and courtyard. He offers a rent of 45 artabas of wheat and assigns repairs to the lessors and plastering and guarding to himself. It dates to year 13 of Domitian (AD 94).

In English machine translation

To Stotoetis son of Apynchis and Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, elder […], the two presidents of the hamlet called Pisais, from Satabous son of T[…], one of those from the village of Herakleia in the division of Themistos, Persian of the Epigone. I wish to lease from you for one year from the twentieth of the present month Pharmouthi of the thirteenth year of Domitian Caesar the lord, the granary of Soknopaios, the great, great god, in the aforementioned hamlet, in which there are five storerooms, and all its equipment, together with the tower to the north of it and the courtyard. I undertake to pay as rent, in all, 45 artabas of new, clean, unadulterated wheat, by the quarter-measure of the god Soknopaios, free of risk and of deductions, the repair and rebuilding of the granary being your responsibility, while the plastering and the guarding of the produce brought in are the responsibility of me, Satabous […] […] and I will pay the rent to you in the month […] in full […] the granary clean of all dirt […] with the doors fitted to it and keys […]

The rent figure and much of the terms in the lower part are editorial restorations. 'Persian of the Epigone' is a legal-status label of Greco-Roman Egypt, often used in loan and lease contracts, with no exact English equivalent.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtangebot auf einen Getreidespeicher). 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 · Herakleia (Arsinoites)

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