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Guarantee of immunity to the nomographos Kronion over sale of a confiscated house share TM 12165Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptSeptember 18, 52 A.D.

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A handwritten guarantee in which Ptolemaios the younger, son of Akousilaos, promises the Tebtynis contract-writer Kronion and the buyer Pausis that they will not be troubled over a half share of a house he sold. The property had belonged to the sons of Teisenxis, who had fled owing heavy taxes, and Ptolemaios undertakes to pay the sale price to the treasury. Written at Tebtynis in AD 52.

In English machine translation

My own (hand?) Ptolemaios the younger, son of Akousilaos, to Kronion son of Apion, nomographos of Tebtynis, greetings. Since you executed with me the contract of my sale to Pausis son of Peteuris of a half share of a house and courtyard and entrance and exit in Tebtynis, as I have declared, formerly (belonging to) the sons of Teisenxis son of Petesouchos, (son of) Apoulas, because you, Kronion, executed it with me for the restoration of the public dues, so that nothing less should accrue to the treasury, I shall pay into the public account the price which I received from Pausis, and I shall keep you, both Kronion and Pausis, free from distraint, free from exaction and free from molestation in every way, because the sons of Teisenxis, equal partners with him, have disappeared, owing very large public dues. And if anyone brings a charge or proceeds against him concerning these matters, I myself shall defend (him) at my own costs and expenses. This handwritten document shall be valid wherever it is produced. Year 13 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month of Sebastos, 21st.

A nomographos was the village official who drew up and registered contracts. The sale was apparently made to recover tax arrears left by the absconded owners.

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. 663 · September 18, 52 A.D. · Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Guarantee of immunity given by Ptolemaios the younger, son of Akousilaos, to Kronion, son of Apion, the notary of Tebtynis, in return for his cooperation in preparing for the sale of a half share of a house, which had previously belonged to the heirs of Tisenxis, who disappeared …

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p.mich.5.354

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 18. Sept. 52 · Arsinoites

ἐμοὶ ἴδιον Πτολεμαῖος νεώτερος Ἀκουσιλάου Κρονίωνι Ἀπίωνος νομογράφωι Τεβτύνεως χαίρειν. ἐπειδὴ συνεχρημάτισάς μοι πωλοῦντι Παύσει Πετεύρεως ἥμισον μέρος οἰκίας καὶ αὐλῆς καὶ εἰσόδου καὶ ἐξόδου ἐν Τεβτύνει, ὡς τυγχάνω προσφωνήσας, πρότερον υἱῶν Τεισένξεως τοῦ Πετεσούχου Ἀπουλᾶτος…