Extract from property register [208-209 AD]
Extract from the property archives of the Arsinoite: Flavia Ptollarous declared that she obtained from her father some land as an "irrevocable gift"
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Extract from the property register on an irrevocable gift of land at Philadelpheia TM 10563Arsinoites208 CE – 209 CE
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An extract from the property register of the Arsinoite nome recording that Flavia Ptollarous, through an agent, declared that her father Marcus Flavius Diogenes had given her, as an irrevocable gift, catoecic and other land near Philadelpheia previously belonging to her under-age brother Marcus Flavius Stratippos. It dates to year 17 of Septimius Severus, AD 209.
In English machine translation
From the Property Record Office (bibliotheke enkteseon) of the Arsinoite nome, from the registered notices (parathesis) of Roman purchasers, remainders(?) […] volume, sheet 200, five sheets.
Flavia Ptollarous, in year 17, Pharmouthi 5, submitted a memorandum through her agent […]doros, declaring that she had received as an irrevocable gift, through the registry office (katalogeion), in the […] year, in Phamenoth, from her father Marcus Flavius Diogenes, the property belonging to his son Marcus Flavius Stratippos, not yet of age, near the village of Philadelpheia: of the catoecic holding of Herakleides, […] arouras in 2 places, and […] of the catoecic holding […] arouras, and of the holding of … from cleared olive grove land(?), 2 1/2 arouras, of estate land (ousiake) […] from his father Flavius Diogenes according to a public instrument […] in the past year, in the month Kaisareios, through the record office of Ptolemais of the Arabs, so that the notice might be registered in accordance with the forwarded agreement (synchoresis) […] the instructions (diastolai). 7 […]
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Registered(?) in the seventeenth year of the Emperors Caesars Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus Maximus and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus, […] 15th.
The bibliotheke enkteseon was the provincial office where ownership of land and property was registered. Several readings, including the olive grove and the regnal-year details, are restored or uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Extract from Property Register). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.col.10.274
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