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Sale of ten arouras of katoikic land near Psinthaubastis TM 16918Hermopolis178 - 179

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A contract of sale of 10 arouras of katoikic (settler) land in the village-scribe district of Psinthaubastis, sold for 4,000 silver drachmas. The parties are women registered in the West City quarter of Hermopolis, acting with guardians, one of them her brother Herminos; the contract dates to year 19 of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.

In English machine translation

[Year 19 of the Emperors Caesars Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus Augusti, Ar]meniaci, Medici, [Parthici, Germanici, Sarmatici, Maximi, […]. [So-and-so] acknowledges […] … […] son of (?) Aelius also called […], with her guardian […], registered in the quarter of the City] West, and … […] Isidoros also called Achilleus […] registered in the quarter of the City West, with her guardian her full brother Herminos, of the same [parents], […] the ten arouras belonging to her in the village-scribe district of Psinthaubastis of the [nomarchy] […], which the seller shall also deliver as sown land in the field, full by the lawful measuring-cord of the [katoikic land, free from royal land and from every kind (of obligation), whose neighbours, as] the seller has dictated, are: to the south …[…] and others, […] at the price of 4,000 drachmas of silver of the coinage of the Augusti […] and that the aforesaid 10 arouras sold are the property and possession […] in whatever manner they choose, from now for all time […] all to (her) own account from the coming year 20 […] …… for [the following time] […] from the former times up to the present year 19 and the said year 19 itself [… 1 line lost …]

Katoikic land was privately held land originally granted to military settlers; it was measured by a special cord. Names of the parties are largely lost, so who is buyer and who seller is partly uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Verkauf von Katökenland). 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 · 178 - 179 · Hermopolis

ἔτους ιθ Αὐτοκρατόρων Καισάρων Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Λουκίου Αὐρηλίου Κομμόδου Σεβαστῶν Ἀρμενιακῶν Μηδικῶν Παρθικῶν Γερμανικῶν Σαρματικῶν Μεγίστων,[…]. ὁμολογεῖ ἡ δεῖνα[…] …[…]υ Αἰλιέως τοῦ καὶ […], μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ[…], ἀναγραφομένη ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Πόλεως Λιβός, καὶ ειμιο […]Ἰ…