The Trexler Library: Muhlenberg College

A baker, Aurelius Stephanus, leases part of an urban house from Flavia Euphemia, a land-owner, in AD 568.

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“The 3rd year of the reign and consulship of our most godly and pious sovereign Flavius Justinus, eternal Augustus and Imperator, Mesore 2, 1st indiction.  To Flavia Euphemia, the honorable daughter of Musaeus of honoured memory, landholder at this illustrious city of Oxyrhynchus, through you, Flavius Anastasius, her noble agent, and you, Jeremias, her admirable collector, Aurelius Stephanus, baker, son of Heraclammon and Nonna, of the said city, greeting.   I undertake of my own free will to lease from the first day of the month of Thoth of the coming D.V. second indiction, from your honour's property out of a house facing south situated in this city in the quarter of St. Euphemia, a complete room on the ground floor also facing south with all appurtenances and the rights attaching to all the house, and I will pay annually as rent for this ten carats of current coinage, total 10 carats current, which rent I will pay every year in half-yearly instalments of half the sum and whenever you wish I will surrender my possession of the room just as I received it.  This lease, of which one copy has been made, is valid and in answer to the question I have given my consent.” Signature of Stephanus written for him by the scribe John, signature of John, and title on the verso.