A notice by the freedwoman Herais, acting with her husband Sarapion as guardian, to the keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome, announcing that she intends to sell her mortgaged two-thirds share of a two-towered house in Ptolemais Euergetis for 2,000 drachmas. The buyer keeps 1,800 drachmas to pay off the mortgage and loan owed to the councillor Serenos.
In English machine translation
To Didas, former exegetes, and Mystes, former kosmetes, both councillors, keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome,
from Herais, freedwoman of Apollonios son of Ptolemaios, of the Trajanian tribe and the Ktesian deme, one of the sacred victors and tax-exempt persons of Antinoopolis, registered in the Hermouthiake quarter, with her husband as guardian, Sarapion also called Demetrios, son of Didas son of Ischyrion, of the Sosikosmian tribe and the Peleian deme.
The two-thirds share, held in common and undivided, of a house with two towers in the metropolis in the quarter of Dionysios' Places, which I registered through the former record-keeper, and which is mortgaged through you to […] also called Serenos, former high priest, councillor of the city of the Arsinoites, son of Sarapion, former exegetes of the same city, of the quarter of Dionysios' Places, for a capital of 1,500 silver drachmas and a further 300 drachmas as an unsecured loan at interest of one drachma (per mina per month), I wish to dispose of to Sarapion also called Ammonios, son of Sarapion also called Demetrios, former eutheniarch, […] for a price of 2,000 silver drachmas. Of the price of 2,000 silver drachmas I have left 1,800 drachmas with Sarapion also called Ammonios, on condition that he repay to the aforementioned creditor the capital owed on the mortgage and the unsecured loan and the interest.
(2nd hand) I, Herais, have submitted the notice of disposal of the two-thirds share of the two-towered house in Dionysios' Places for a price of 2,000 silver drachmas, of which I have left 1,800 drachmas with the buyer to go toward repayment as stated above. I, Sarapion, wrote also on behalf of my wife, who does not know letters.
The 'property record office' (bibliotheke enkteseon) registered real estate and encumbrances; owners had to notify it before disposing of property. The creditor's first name and part of the buyer's description are illegible.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anzeige einer beabsichtigten Veräußerung an die Vorsteher des Grundbuchamtes in Arsinoe). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.