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Guarantee of immunity to the notary Kronion for releasing a land cession TM 12164Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptApril 9, 48 A.D.

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Herakleides son of Herakleides guarantees Kronion son of Apion, the notary of Tebtynis, against any claims or penalties for handing over a cession of 3 1/2 arouras originally drawn up for his late father, even though the father never produced the required authorization from the catoecic registry, which had been lost. Written at Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome on 9 April AD 48.

In English machine translation

Herakleides son of Herakleides to Kronion son of Apion, nomographos of Tebtynis, greetings. I acknowledge that I will keep you and your agents free from harassment and from any exaction in every way with regard to the cession of 3 1/2 arouras from Herodes alias Herakleides son of Lysimachos, previously made through you to my father Herakleides the younger son of Maron, who died long ago, which I have received from you, because my father himself did not deliver to you the authorization of the existing catoecic registrations of that year, since the said authorization had been entirely lost; and I will stop anyone who brings a claim about this or about any other of the matters set out in the same cession. This handwritten document shall be valid wherever it is produced and for anyone who produces it. Year 8 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Pharmouthi 14. [verso] […]

The nomographos was the official contract-writer of the village record office. The verb 'I will stop' is supplied by the editor, as the scribe omitted it.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Guarantee of Immunity). 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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Guarantee of Immunity

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 659 · April 9, 48 A.D. · Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Contract guaranteeing immunity, whereby Herakleides, son of Herakleides the younger, agrees to protect Kronion, son of Apion, the notary of Tebtynis, against any penalties he may incur for having issued to him without the proper warrant a contract of cession prepared for his late…

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p.mich.5.353

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 9. Apr. 48 · Arsinoites

[r] Ἡρακλείδης Ἡρακλείδου Κρονίωνι Ἀπίωνος νομογράφωι Τεβτύνεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἀπερίσπαστον καὶ ἀνείσπρακτόν σε ποιήσειν καὶ τοὺς παρὰ σοῦ κατὰ πάντα τρόπον ὑπὲρ ἧς ἔσχον παρὰ σοῦ τὴν προγεγονυίαν διὰ σοῦ εἰς τὸν πατέρα μου Ἡρακλείδην νεώτερον Μάρωνος ὃς τετελεύτηκεν ἔτι πάλαι …