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Subscriptions to a sale of part of a house and courtyard at Talei TM 15171Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIst century A.D. (ca. 37 A.D.[?])

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Subscriptions to a sale contract in which Tamystha, acting with her husband Polemon as guardian, sells to her son Dionysios two fifths of an inherited two-storied house and courtyard in the village of Talei. The buyer acknowledges the sale; both parties were illiterate and had scribes write for them. The text dates to about AD 37 and comes from the Arsinoite nome (Tebtynis).

In English machine translation

I, Tamystha daughter of Orseus, my mother being Tapettheus, with my husband Polemon son of Dionysios, his mother being Taanoubion, as guardian, acknowledge that I have sold to Dionysios son of Polemon, his mother being Tamystha, the two parts out of five belonging to me of an ancestral two-storied house and courtyard and all appurtenances, held in common and undivided, in Talei; the neighbours of the whole house and courtyard being: on the south and east, the courtyard formerly of Nikolaos; on the north, a common entrance and exit; on the west, the house of Didymos, weaver. And I have received the price in full, and I will guarantee the sale with every guarantee, as stated above. Onnophris son of Marsisouchos wrote for them because they do not know letters. I, Dionysios son of Polemon, my mother being Tamystha: the sale has been made to me as stated above. Patron son of Heron wrote for him because he does not know letters.

This is a duplicate copy of the subscriptions only, not the full contract body. The buyer is evidently the seller's own son, as his parents' names match the seller and her husband.

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

Sale of Part of a House and Courtyard

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 704 · Ist century A.D. (ca. 37 A.D.[?]) · Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Subscriptions to a contract by which Tamystha, daughter of Orseus and Tapettheus, sells two fifths of a two-story house and courtyard in Talei to her son Dionysios

p.mich.5.290dupl

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 37 (?) · Arsinoites

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