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Indemnity declaration by a guardian to his fellow guardian concerning a legacy of land TM 11408Arsinoites (?)

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Titus Flavius Capito writes to his fellow guardian Titus Flavius Sarapion about 3 arouras of catoecic land left to him as a legacy by Flavia Ptolema, grandmother of their ward Longinus Valens. Capito undertakes to bear at his own expense any inquiry or lawsuit about the land when the guardians render account to the minor. Dated by the 8th year of Antoninus Pius (AD 144/145), probably from the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] Titus Flavius Capito to Titus Flavius Sarapion, his fellow guardian of […] Longinus Valens, a minor, who has become heir under the will of Flavia Ptolema, who died in the month […] of the 8th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, being grandmother of the aforementioned minor, greetings. Since Flavia Ptolema left me, under the will deposited with you, 3 arouras of catoecic allotment land, which even after her death I enjoy the produce of and carry off the proceeds from them for my own use, while I pay all the public dues on them in the name of Flavia Ptolema, I acknowledge that, if any inquiry arises concerning their proceeds or anything else about them when we render the account to the minor, I myself will carry through the matters concerning these at my own expense, and I will settle whatever is judged about this, if a judgment takes place. This note of hand is my own autograph, written in duplicate, without erasure or addition, and let it be valid everywhere and for everyone who produces it, as if registered in a public archive. And if any necessity arises, I will declare its copy so that it is made through a public registration without delay. [verso] Note of hand which I wrote to Sarapion concerning the 3 arouras of land from Ptolema, that is, the legacy. Letter of Malatas concerning the bulls, to the Heliopolite nome.

Catoecic land was allotment land originally held by military settlers, taxed at favourable rates. The verso's last line about bulls is an unrelated docket reusing the sheet.

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

p.hamb.1.70

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Arsinoites (?)

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