Application for deposit (parathesis) of a house purchase deed at Philadelphia TM 11296Philadelphia (Arsinoites)Dez. 307

In the consulship of our lord Maximinus, most illustrious Caesar. Copy. From Aurelia Tapais, daughter of Patermouthis, her mother being Taisas, from the village of Philadelphia in the division of Herakleides. I bought, by a public instrument executed here in the Arsinoite (nome) on the present day, in the same village of Philadelphia, a small one-storey house and courtyard, for the price of 1 talent and 900 drachmas of silver, from the Aurelii Gounthos and Atari, the latter acting without a guardian by right of children […] with her husband Aurelius Nemesion, son of Ioulios, his mother being Theodora, as guardian, and Tauēs and Sambathous, both minors, with their aforementioned brother Aurelius Gounthos as guardian, the five children of Papnouthis, their mother being Tanilla, all from the village of A[…] in the division of Herakleides, (the property) not having been registered. Therefore I submit (this) so that the deposit may be made in accordance with the copy of the instrument of sale that I have deposited. For when I make the registration of it I shall show that it exists and is free, held by no one; and if the house should prove to belong to another or to be previously encumbered, this deposit through the record office shall not be an obstacle.