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Agreement between siblings to share the expenses of a magistracy TM 11454Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)27. Nov. - 26. Dez. 221

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An agreement among three siblings, Aurelius Agathos Daimon (Hermias), Silvanus and Didyme, children of the former gymnasiarch Horion, made at Ptolemais Euergetis in AD 221. Because Silvanus had been elected by the city council to a magistracy, as his brothers had been before him, they agree to keep their paternal estate undivided and to meet the costs of his office, including joint borrowing, from the common property.

In English machine translation

[… 3 lines lost …] In the fifth year of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix and Marcus Aurelius Alexander Caesar, Augusti, in the month Hadrianos, Choiak, at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome. Mutual agreement is made by Aurelius Agathos Daimon also called Neilos, surnamed Hermias, former gymnasiarch, councillor of the city of the Arsinoites, aged about 40, and Silvanus, aged about 24, with a scar on the forehead […] and Didyme, aged about 33, without distinguishing marks, with the guardian given to her according to the customs of the Romans […], the three children of Horion, former gymnasiarch […] councillor of the city of the Arsinoites, son of Neilos also called Hermias, former gymnasiarch […]. Aurelius Silvanus having been elected by the most excellent council in the present 5th year in the month […] of the city, and having come forward and requested that, just as his […] brother Hermias […] and brother Horigenes, former gymnasiarch, councillor of the same city, held the same office […] while still living, and that accordingly he too ought to hold the aforesaid office to which he has been elected […] of all the paternal property, they have now by this agreement, out of their mutual affection, agreed […] that all the paternal property belonging to them shall remain in common, and out of the surplus […] he was elected, after the grain and money taxes on the property and expenses […] for the costs of the office and […] that Hermias and Didyme should borrow jointly with Silvanus […] the costs of the office, and that the debts shall be repaid again from the same property in […] of repayment, and none of them shall be permitted to transgress any of these terms, because on these terms with one another […] [… 13 lines lost …] [… 7 lines lost …]

The month Choiak was called Hadrianos in honorific usage. The name of the office Silvanus was elected to is lost in the gaps.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Agreement to share expenses of a magistracy). 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 · 27. Nov. - 26. Dez. 221 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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