Fragmentary declaration of property addressed to an official named Theogenes, a scribe, by Achill[…] son of Kolylis and Dionysia of Oxyrhynchus. The declarant asks to be registered for the first time as owner of a half share of a house bought by private contract in the 15th year of Antoninus Pius, and a slave also appears to be mentioned.
In English machine translation
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To Theogenes […] scribe (?) […]
from Achill[…] son of […] and Kolylis son of […], mother Dionysia, […] from Oxyrhynchus city. I wish to be registered for the first time from now on in respect of the property belonging to me […] half share of a house […] which I bought from Di[…], son of […]sis (?), mother […], from the same city, by private sale contract […] of the past fifteenth year of Antoninus Caesar the lord […]
slave […]
two, so that it is […]
[…] and I […]
[…] it (?) […]
of Thaesis […]
[…]
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Such declarations (apographai) were submitted to the property record office (bibliothēkē enktēseōn) so that newly acquired property could be entered in the owner's name. The 15th year of Antoninus Pius is AD 151/2, consistent with a date of 152-153.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Dichiarazione di proprietà). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.