Request for provisional registration of a house with a mill at Philadelphia TM 12292Arsinoiton polis, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptApril 5, 298 A.D.

To Aurelius Horion, councillor, keeper of the property records of the Arsinoite nome, from Aurelia Tapais daughter of Papnouthis, her mother being Thaisas, from the village of Philadelphia in the division of Herakleides, acting without a guardian according to the customs of the Romans by the right of children. I bought […] […] made here in the Arsinoite nome on the present day, in the same village of Philadelphia, a one-storey small house with the mill in it, in which there is a collapsed courtyard building, for the price of 3,000 silver drachmas, total 3,000 drachmas, from Aurelius Titus Valerius Gaianus son of Titus Valerius Satrianus also called Serenos, his mother being Iulia, of the Antinoites, and however he is styled, not registered. Therefore I submit this so that the provisional registration may be made in accordance with the copy of the deed of sale which I have attached. For whenever I make the registration of it, I will show that it exists and is clear, held by no one; but if the small house should appear through the record office to belong to another or to be previously encumbered, no obstacle shall arise from this provisional registration. Aurelius Horion, councillor, keeper of the property records of the Arsinoite nome …