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A fragmentary agreement drawn up at Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome on 27 September AD 105, in which a woman named Athenarion, acting with her paternal cousin as guardian, acknowledges that she has and will make no claim against a certain Philippos. It mentions property of hers, an allotment (kleros), her full brothers including Leonides, debts to Herodes and Heron, and a sum of 3,500 silver drachmas, and probably concerns a sale of land.
Catalogued as a receipt in a sale of land; the land sale is inferred from the large sum and the word kleros (a cleruchic allotment). The date corresponds to Sebastos 30 of Trajan's year 9.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt in a Sale of Land). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
A receipt made by a woman named Athenarion, acting with her guardian, a cousin whose name is lost (l. 6), to a certain Philippos for payment of a large sum of money which we read (l. 21) as 3500 drachmai. Because of the large sum involved and the appearance of "klerou" (l. 13) we…
…δ ἔτους ἐνάτου αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Νέρουα Τραιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Δακικοῦ μηνὸς Σεβαστοῦ τριακάδι ἐν Θεαδελφίαι τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογεῖ Ἀθηνάριον …… ὡς ἐτῶν τριάκοντα δύο μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ ἑαυτῆς κατὰ πατέρα ἀνεψιοῦ …[…] ω῾ς ἐτῶν τριάκοντα τριῶν …
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