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Application to the property archivists concerning cession of grain land TM 12431Tebtynis (Arsinoites)3. Febr. 128

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Fragmentary application to the keepers of the property archives (bibliophylakes) by Dioskoros son of Nemesion, an Alexandrian citizen, quoting a document of cession issued through the archidikastes Munatianus. It concerns the cession of 38 3/4 arouras of grain land in the kleros of Boubalos in the Arsinoite nome, involving a woman, daughter of Serallion, acting through Ptollarion. Written in February AD 128.

In English machine translation

[…] of Hadrian Caesar the lord, in the month of Mecheir […] from Dioskoros son of Nemesion, grandson of Areios, of the Sosikosmian tribe also called Zeneian […] […] with the document of cession sent to you by Munatianus, priest and archidikastes, of which the copy is appended: […] of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, Mecheir 9. To Munatianus son of Munatianus […] […] of the division of Polemon of the Arsinoite nome, being absent, on whose behalf there is present for the completion of this agreement […] […] of Serallion, having become and having received from her through Ptollarion by bank order through […] […] of the kleros called that of Boubalos, of grain-bearing land 38 3/4 arouras, or however many they may be, more […] […] in the two agreements made concerning their cession, executed through the [record office] in Ptolemais Euergetis of the same Arsinoite […] […] in the past eleventh year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, in the month of Kaisareios, of the remaining half share of the same arouras […] using the entrances and exits of the arouras and the irrigations and drainages and the […] […] for the public dues paid on them, both in grain and in money, and the other […] […] immediately at her own expense […] [… ? lines lost …]

The archidikastes was the Alexandrian official before whom such agreements (synchoreseis) were registered; parachoresis is a formal cession of land rights, often a disguised sale of cleruchic land.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Richiesta ai bibliophylakes). 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. Febr. 128 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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