Registration of a deed

Description

This long and well preserved papyrus, which was found rolled up in a cloth, is an application to the archidicastes asking him to communicate to the record-office of Oxyrhynchus the publication at Alexandria of a deed of sale; the copy of the latter and of the request for publication is enclosed. The component parts of the document may be placed in their chronological order as follows: (1) Copy of the agreement for sale with the signature of the vendor (2) Application to the archidicastes for the publication of this agreement. (3) Further application to the archidicastes for the communication of the publication to the record office at Oxyrhynchus. (4) Endorsement of the archidicastes ordering the proper steps to be taken. (5) Endorsement prefixed by an official in the bureau of the archidicastes, forwarding the document to the proper quarter. (6) Signature of the applicant appended at a later time.