Record of transfer of auctioned property to Theodoros after default TM 131603Herakleopolites ?, Ägypten

Fragment of an official record, probably of an auction of land or property in the Herakleopolite nome, Ptolemaic period. Because earlier bidders, Ptolemaios and Zenodotos, failed to pay their instalments on time, a certain Theodoros takes over the holdings on the same terms, including land in the kleros of Machatas near the village of Nisea.

In English machine translation

A kleros was an allotment of land granted to a soldier-settler; the 'instalments' (anaphorai) are payments of the purchase price set by the public announcement of sale. The record's title suggests a sale by auction of real estate, but this is marked as uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Versteigerung von Liegenschaften (?)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.