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Cession of a share in katoecic olive groves near Karanis TM 11626Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)3. Juni 88

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A contract registered at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome in AD 88, by which Didymos also called Diodoros, with his wife Diodora, cedes for all time a half share of his maternal half share in katoecic olive groves near Karanis and Psenarpsenesis (12 3/4 arouras in total), apparently in favour of Petheus, brother of Mikkalos.

In English machine translation

Registered, in the seventh year of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, on the 9th of the month Soter[e]ios. […] Germanicus, month Soterios 9, Pauni 9, at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome. Didymos also called Diodoros, son of Akousilaos also called Sarapion, son of Artemidoros, acknowledges […] -faced, straight-nosed, with a scar on the right shin, and his wife Diodora, daughter of Herakleides also called Arabion, aged about thirty-seven, of medium height, honey-coloured, long-faced, straight-nosed, […] of Ptolemaios also called Petheus the elder, son of Petheus, aged about thirty-seven, of medium height, honey-coloured, long-faced, straight-nosed, with a scar on the middle of the forehead below the hairline; that Didymos [has ceded] […] [and] to his descendants and successors, for transfer of registration, from the aforesaid day for all time, the half share of the maternal half share belonging to him […] Mikkalos and his brother Petheus, of olive groves in the katoecic category, near Karanis in the division of Herakleides, of 9 3/4 arouras […] the newly planted (land), and near Psenarpsenesis in the same division, of 3 arouras, called Herakoulis, making together 12 3/4 arouras, or however many [there may be] […] Didymos on the present day to the aforesaid brother of Mikkalos, Petheus, in accordance with the arrangements made in his favour, on the existing […] […] and […] in all respects, the whole […] […]

Soterios was an honorific month name used under Domitian, here equated with Pauni. Katoecic land was a category of land originally held by military settlers, transferable by registration (metepigraphe).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 3. Juni 88 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

σεσημείωμαι ἔτους ἑβδόμου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Δομιτιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ μηνὸς Σωτηρείου ἐνάτηι […]μανικου μηνὸς Σωτηρίου θ Παῦνι ἐνάτηι ἐν Πτολεμαίδι Εὐεργετίδι τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογοῦσι Δίδυμος ὁ καὶ Διόδωρος Ἀκουσιλάου τοῦ καὶ Σαραπίωνος τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρου […]πρόσωπο…