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Fragment of an official decision concerning a dispute over vacant building plots at Soknopaiou Nesos, sold by a priest (prophet). The prophet claimed they were ancestral property, while the accuser Nestnephis argued they had belonged to an old laarches and so fell to the Idios Logos; the outcome orders Satabous to pay 500 drachmas for confirmation of the plots.
The Idios Logos was the Roman account administering ownerless and confiscated property. A laarches was a Ptolemaic-era official (leader of native troops), and much of the wording at the line beginnings is restored.
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.
[…]ψιλῶν τόπων τοῦ προφήτου καθοριζομένου τοὺς πεπραμένους ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ τόπους ἐπικεκρατῆσθαι ὑπὸ τε τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν προγόνων ἅπερ ἦν αὐτοῦ πατρικὰ ἔγγαια ὧν καὶ νῦν ἐπικρατεῖν πύργου καὶ προνησίου καὶ ἄλλων συνκυρόντων, τοῦ δὲ ἐνκαλοῦντος Νεστνήφιος ἀνθοριζομένου τὴν ὅλην …
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