Application to lease an oil factory at Soknopaiou Nesos TM 9980Dionysias (Arsinoites)41 - 42 (?)

A fragmentary offer to lease an oil factory at Soknopaiou Nesos in the Arsinoite nome for one year, made by someone from Dionysias. The factory is described with its machinery, three mortars and a courtyard, and the rent was apparently to be paid in cnecus (safflower) oil, measured partly in choes, with payments in six-monthly instalments.

In English machine translation

Cnecus oil is oil pressed from safflower seed; the chous is a liquid measure. The second regnal year is presumably that of Claudius, giving the uncertain date of AD 41-42.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for Lease of Oil Factory). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.