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Offer to lease an olive grove at Dionysias TM 9863Dionysias (Arsinoites)217 - 223

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Beginning of an offer to lease five arouras of olive grove near the village of Dionysias in the Arsinoite nome for three years. The prospective tenant, Aurelius Ammonas, addresses the landowner Aurelius Diodoros also called Pannion, a former magistrate and councillor of Arsinoe. The rest of the document is lost.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Diodoros also called Pannion, former exegetes, former gymnasiarch, councillor of the city of the Arsinoites, from Aurelius Ammonas son of Ptollaos, grandson of Tolis, from the village of Dionysias. I wish to lease from you, near the same village, in the place called Talaaireos, 5 arouras of olive grove, or however many they may be, being lush (?), for a period of three years, from the crops of the past first year, which have fallen into […]

The text is an offer of lease (a tenant's application), the usual Roman-period form of lease contract. The meaning of the clause about crops of the past first year is cut off where the papyrus breaks.

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 · 217 - 223 · Dionysias (Arsinoites)

Αὐρηλίῳ Διοδώρῳ τῷ καὶ Παννίωνι ἐξηγητεύσαντι γυμνασιαρχήσαντι βουλευτῇ τῆς Ἀρσινοιτῶν πόλεως παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἀμμωνᾶτος Πτολλαους Τωλεως ἀπὸ κώμης Διονυσιάδος· βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ περὶ τὴν αὐτὴν κώμην ἐν τόπῳ Ταλααίρεως λεγομενῳ ἐλαιῶνος ἀρούρας πέντε ἢ ὅσαι ἐὰν ὦσι οὔσας…