Bank notice of payment of sales tax together with a copy of a sale contract from Oxyrhynchus under Claudius. Thais daughter of Amenneus, with her husband Thoonis as guardian, bought from her nephew Heraklous son of Hatres a twelfth share of a two-storey house with cellar near the Sarapeum.
In English machine translation
[Year …] of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, [month of Kaisareios, 8, a day of Augustus (?)],
through the bank in the city of Oxyrhynchus [over which] […]lemon and [associates preside: Thais daughter of Amenneus, with as]
guardian her own husband Thoonis son of […], has paid the tax on the [twelfth]
share belonging to her of a two-storey house, under which there is a cellar, and of the entrance [and exit and the]
appurtenances held in common and undivided with the purchaser and […] [situated at the]
Sarapeum near the city of Oxyrhynchus in the lane […], which she bought from [her sister's]
son Heraklous son of Hatres son of Hatres by an agoranomic deed, for […] of copper
[…] in exchange for silver, five thousand four hundred, total of copper in exchange for silver 5,400, additional (?) […] [with]
carriage fee 2 drachmas 1 1/2 obols, [with] carriage fee 2 drachmas 1/2 obol […]
[Year …] of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator,
month of Kaisareios 8, a day of Augustus, at the city of Oxyrhynchus in the Thebaid, [before the agoranomoi] […]
[…] Thais daughter of Amenneus, about 32 years old, […] of medium […],
with as guardian her own husband Thoonis son of […], about 42 years old, of medium [height] […]
[…] left […], has bought from her sister's son Heraklous son of [Hatres son of Hatres],
[…] about 18 years old, of medium height, honey-coloured, long-faced, with a scar on the left thigh […]
[…] the twelfth share of a two-storey house, under which there is a cellar, [and of the entrance and exit and]
[…] the appurtenances held in common and undivided with the purchaser […]
[…] situated at the Sarapeum near the city of Oxyrhynchus in the lane […]; [neighbours of the whole]
house and the cellar: on the south, the entrance and exit of the house of Sotades […]
[…] on the west, (the house of) Horos, weaver; on the east, a public lane; for […] talents of copper […]
having sold the aforesaid twelfth share of the house […] [free from]
all (claims), with every guarantee, in the same street […]
[…]
[…]
The price was paid in copper reckoned against silver; the exact year and some figures are lost. Kaisareios is the Roman-era name for the month Mesore.
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 House). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.