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Gaius Longinus Aquilas, veteran, and Gaius Longinus Valerian, to Gaia, daughter of Longinus, mother of Thais from the village of Karanis, through the overseer Ptolemaios, also known as Agathodaimon, greetings. We acknowledge the sale to you of the bare land belonging to us, measured and enclosed, in the aforementioned village of Karanis, where the neighbors on the south are the house of Artemis, on the north a public street, next to which is the canal of Kala, to the east the barn of those of Kokkaios and the house of Heras, and to the west the entry and exit of the street, and we have received from you the price in silver, three hundred drachmas by your hand. Therefore, may you hold, rule, and have the authority to manage it, as you choose, and we will confirm this with all assurance, the autograph being of my own hand. Signed by Aquilas on the lord's orders, as if in public record. In the year 29 of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar, lord, Mesore month. [...]