Registration of Sale of Catoecic Land

The 7th year of Imperator Caesar Trajanus Hadrianus Augustus, Phamenoth 21st, at Tebtunis in the Polemon district of the Arsinoite nome. Didyme, daughter of Lysimachos, son of Lysimachos, aged about 75 years, having a scar on the left brow, with the assistance of Valerius, son of Herakleides, aged about 46 years, having a scar on the right knee, acknowledges to Lysimachos, son of Didymos, son of Lysimachos, aged about 68 years, having a scar on the right knee, that she has ceded to him, Lysimachos, as well as to his descendants and their cessionaries, from the said day for ever, out of the 10 1/2 1/16 arourae, with 1/4 aroura allotment to the village, total 10 1/2 1/4 1/16 arourae (now) belonging to herself, Didyme, near the village of Ibion Eikosipentarouron in the aforesaid district, and formerly to Herakleides, son of Maron, and assigned to her by a deed of partition which she drew up with three partners in the 3rd year of Hadrian Caesar the lord month of Pachon 28th through the registrar’s office here, the 5 1/2 1/64 arourae of catoecic land, with 1/8 aroura allotment to the village, total 5 1/2 1/8 1/64 arourae situated in the northern part of the whole, from west to east, and at the same time the entire proceeds of them during the present 7th year and the fourth part of the watchtower there, which belongs to the ceded arourae. And from the ceded area, Lysimachos shall reserve for the arourae in the south which remain Didyme’s property, a drying place in the south-west of the tower, 4 square ammata in the superficies, for the - - -, and the crops which will be sown on them. Neighbours of the ceded arourae are, as they have unanimously declared: in the south, the arourae which remain Didyme’s property; in the north, the lot belonging to - - - and Lysimachos and Arios, the three sons of Apollonios; in the west, a field belonging to the state behind which there is a canal irrigating the ceded arourae; in the east, another canal. - - - all the rights of irrigation Didyme is entitled to by virtue of the aforesaid deed of partition. Valid shall also be the transactions registered in the list of katalochismoi of the katoikoi. The acknowledging party, Didyme, has received from Lysimachos forthwith from hand to hand out of his house the whole sum of 2000 silver drachmae fixed for the cession of the ceded 5 1/2 1/64 arourae with the allotment; and Didyme and her cessionaries shall guarantee with full security for Lysimachos and his cessionaries the aforesaid ceded property, which she transfers neither encumbered, nor liable to distraint, nor mortgaged, and free of all public duties, artaba-taxes, naubia and any kind of payments due for the past up to the former 6th year included, as well as from private obligations and every claim whensoever. She shall neither accuse nor dispute nor prosecute with a view to the aforesaid agreement, and if she prosecutes or accuses, the prosecution and accusation shall not be valid; and Didyme shall pay to Lysimachos, if she does not guarantee or transfer forthwith, the cession sum which she received, with a surplus of 50%, twice the amount of the damage and a penalty of 1000 silver drachmae, besides to the Treasury the same sum and nothing less, apart from the fact that the agreement shall remain valid and unchanged forever - - - the cession shall be valid. Registered by Lourios also called Apollonios, chief of the registrar’s office of Tebtunis and Kerkesouchon Oros, in the 7th year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, 27th of Phamenoth. To Dionysios and Herakleides, ex-gymnasiarchs, keepers of the archives of enkteseis in the Arsinoite nome, from Lysimachos, son of Didymos, son of Lysimachos, registered in the Tharapeia quarter. As a supplement to the returns presented to your predecessors, I herewith return the cateocic land which has today been transferred to me with your permission by Didyme, daughter of Lysimachos, son of Lysimachos, registered in the Treasuries quarter, who had delivered a return to your predecessors, viz. 5 1/2 1/64 arourae and 1/8 aroura allotment, total area 5 1/2 1/8 1/64 arourae, reaching from west to east in the northern part of 10 1/2 1/4 1/16 arourae near Ibion Eikosipentarouron, free from every debt and mortgage, at the price of 2000 drachmae. Therefore, I present this return. - - - ex-gymnasiarch through Apollonios secretary. Entered in the register. 7th year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, Phamenoth 27th.