Fragments of an official register of property declarations from the Arsinoite nome, recording registrations of land, catoecic allotments, a storehouse and a mortgage by Alexandrian and Antinoite citizens. Entries are dated to years of Antoninus Pius and of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, each closed with an official's signature note.
In English machine translation
[recto, fragment A]
[…] … Claudius (?) of the … and […]
[…] in year 24 of Antoninus, Phaophi 3, registered […]
[…] … and a storehouse, which he says has been held under seizure by him […]
[…] … liable for a principal of 1 talent and 4,100 drachmas and interest of […] talent(s) […]
[…] of his purchasers from Ptolemaios […]
[…] to …, Antinoite, of the Sebasteios tribe also called of the Dioskoureios deme, registered […]
[…] in accordance with what was sent to us by Eudoros […]
[…] to Ptolemaios according to the pledge, Herm[…]
[…] and 2,100 drachmas and the interest that will accrue, and further also […]
[…] … of Demetrios, year 24 of Antoninus, Tybi […]
[…] registered on the present day. I have signed.
[…] Thermoutharion, daughter of Sabinus son of Nemesion, citizen woman (astē), […]
[…] … part of a catoecic allotment, 7 1/2 arouras, and as […]
[…] of Herakleides, of the Propapposebasteios tribe also called of the Althaieus deme, […]
[…] their father [having died] intestate, leaving them as his only children and [heirs] […]
[…] in year 13 of Antoninus, in the month Germanikeios, and catoecic arouras […]
[…] are homonymous. I have signed. Year 3 of Antoninus and Verus [the lords Augusti] […]
[…] 7 1/2 1/16 [arouras] near the village of Boukolon, to Sarapias daughter of Herodes son of Isidoros […]
[recto, fragment B]
[…] citizen woman. Year 18 of Antoninus, Mecheir 18, she registered a third share of common [and] undivided [arouras] […]
her share being on the northern side, 1/30 share of a vacant plot which she says she bought by public instrument […]
of sale. I have signed.
Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios son of Herodes, of the Sosikosmios tribe also called of the Zenios deme, in year 18 of Antoninus, Pachon 3, registered […]
by public instrument executed through the record office of Alabanthis in year 18 of Antoninus, in the month Sebastos, a cession …[…]
made to him by Isidoros, also called Ptolemaios, son of Isidoros, former gymnasiarch, from the Bithynians' quarter, Ision […] registered in the same year 18, Pharmouthi. I have signed.
Ptolemaios son of Sarapion son of Gaius, of the Sosikosmios tribe also called of the Althaieus deme, in year 18 of Antoninus […] [registered on the present] day, and has also transacted regarding the same 19 arouras and … […]
[verso]
Such registers belong to the property record office (bibliothēkē enktēseōn). Names like Sosikosmios and Althaieus are Alexandrian tribe and deme designations marking citizen status.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Registri di titoli 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.