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Application to the property record office to register a purchased share of a house at Philadelpheia TM 11374Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)7. Okt. 209

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An application by Antonia Thermoutharion, a woman acting without a guardian under the Roman right of children, to the keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome, asking that her purchase of a small share of a house in Philadelpheia for 100 drachmas be noted in the register. The sellers were the four children of Longinus alias Sarapion; the officials Didas and Mystes confirm the entry.

In English machine translation

[I, so-and-so, have signed. Year 18 of the Emper]ors [Caesars] Lucius Septimius Severus Pius [Pertinax and] Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Augusti and [Publius] Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus, Phaophi 10. To Didas, former exegetes, and [Mystes], former kosmetes, councillors, keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome, from Antonia Thermoutharion, acting without a guardian according to the customs of the Romans by the right of children. By a public instrument executed on the present day through the record office here, I bought in the village of Philadelpheia one half of one fifteenth share, common and undivided, of a sixth share of a house and appurtenances, for the price of 100 silver drachmas, from Titoleius also called Isidoros and Titoleius, both Antinoites of the Sabinian tribe and Harmonian deme, and Kyrille and Titania, the four children of Longinus also called Sarapion son of Isidoros, the property not being registered (to them), the women each with her husband as guardian, Kyrille with Sokrates son of Theon son of Ptolemaios, from the Arabon quarter, and Titania with Ammonios son of Klaudianos also called Ptolemaios, former high priest of the city of the Arsinoites. Therefore I submit this so that the entry may be made in accordance with the copy of the instrument that I have appended. For whenever I make the registration of it, I shall prove that it exists and is free of claims, held by no one; and if it should appear to belong to another or to have been previously encumbered through the record office, this entry shall not constitute a hindrance. I, Didas, former exegetes, councillor, have registered it. I, Mystes, former kosmetes, councillor, have registered it. Year 18 of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Augusti and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus, Phaophi 10.

The request is a parathesis, a provisional notation in the property register protecting a buyer's claim before formal registration (apographe). The 'right of children' (ius liberorum) allowed a Roman woman with enough children to act without a guardian.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gesuch an das Grundbuchamt um Wahrung eines käuflich erworbenen Hausteiles). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 7. Okt. 209 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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