Two fragmentary declarations of property addressed to the keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome, Isidoros and Antarion also called Arsinoos. A woman reports land she bought and wishes to sell, and Diodoros son of Sotas declares an empty plot bought for 200 drachmas, with an oath under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (AD 161-169). The back carries a short wheat account.
In English machine translation
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[…] also called Arsinoos,
[…] keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome,
from [so-and-so], daughter (?) of Aphrodisios, registered in the Tharapeia quarter, […]
[…] which I registered through you
[…] one and a half arouras
[…] which I bought
[by public instrument] executed through the record office in the present year 1
[…] of seven […] drachmas […] Ammo[…] of the Hiera Pyle quarter […] and […] I wish to alienate through the same record office […]
[…]
[…]
[…] through the keepers before you, with a time limit […] to you
[…] through which
[…]
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[…]
[…]
[…] year 2
[…] of Hadrian 9
[…]
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To Isidoros and Antarion also called Arsinoos […]
from Diodoros son of Sotas, grandson of So[…]
an empty plot formerly belonging to Eu[…] in the second year of the deified Aelius Antoninus […]
[…] under Serenos, former strategos […]
of Marcus Livius Livianus also called […] Vegetus
also called Sarapion, former strategos of the Herakleides division […]
for a price of 200 silver drachmas […]
through the former keepers of the records […]
of an examined memorandum […]
from the pasted-together public instruments […] of the public bankers, as paid […]
of the registry office in year 11 of the deified Aelius Antoninus […]
in year 9, Pachon, and of the […]
and because afterwards it was seized […]
the property, I submitted to you together […]
Pauni 9, of a letter concerning the […] examined likewise from the […]
I, Diodoros, registered the same […] so that there be no inquiry about the […]
[…] of the record office, from a report of letters […] of Maximus
also called Nearchos, former strategos of the Herakleides division […]
[…] is another, and because it has been agreed […] of Theodoros […]
[…] has approached Thaisarion, wife […]
from the public record office from […]
as was declared by the officials, the one through […]
And I swear by the fortune of Antoninus and Verus, the lords Augusti […] Year […] of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
and Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus […]
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of arrears, Phaophi:
wheat, 229 artabas
of these, there were left 40 (?)
and for wages
The bibliophylakes enkteseon kept the official register of privately owned property, to which owners had to report acquisitions and sales. The verso account is a separate, later use of the papyrus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Denunzie di proprietà). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.