The end of an application to the property record office for a parathesis, a notice registering a claim or security on property, in which the applicant promises to prove the property is unencumbered. It was registered by the record keeper Aurelius Antoninus on 12 July 226 in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
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[…] in accordance with the copy of the official instrument which I have submitted. For whenever […] not […] I shall prove that they exist and are free, held by no one (else);
but if they should appear to belong to another or to have been previously encumbered through the record office, this submission shall be no obstacle.
I, Aurelius Antoninus, former kosmetes, keeper of the records, have registered (it).
Year 5 of Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Pius Felix Augustus, Epeiph 18.
A parathesis was a notice lodged with the property record office (bibliophylakion) to secure a claim against property; it has no exact English equivalent. The beginning of the document, naming the applicant and the property, is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Demande de παράθεσις). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.