copy of a deed of sale

Description

This papyrus contains the copy of a deed of sale. The buyer, . . .noitarion alias Thermouthion, has submitted to the archidicastes, Diodotos, a copy of the deed of sale of twenty-eight and a half arouras of land, including vineyards, plus a half-share of a water-wheel, which she purchased from Theogenes for 17,100 drachmas. The archidicastes has, in turn, submitted copies of the original contractand her request for publication to the Libraries of Hadrian and of the Nanaion; he has also returned to her a copy of the document as published, with his approval appended. She then sent a copy to the strategos with a request that he serve it on Theogenes. The text which we have is the copy which Theogenes received, since it bears his and a clerk's subscriptions acknowledging the serving of the document.