Request to the strategos for registration of a land purchase near Antipera Pela TM 17008Oxyrhynchos11. Sept. 229

To Aurelius Leonides, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the Aurelii Ptollion son of Amois son of Sarapion, his mother being Didyme, and Apion also called Ammonios son of Apion surnamed Pauseirion, his mother being Variane, both from the city of Oxyrhynchus, kosmetai and councillors of the same city. By an agreement (synchoresis) completed through the katalogeion in the past 8th year, in the month of Hathyr, we have bought in equal shares from Aurelius Theon, gymnasiarch and councillor of the same city, son of Aristion son of Teiron, former exegetes of the same city, his mother being Sarapous also called Demetria, from the same city, the land belonging to him near Antipera Pela, from the kleros of Rhodon and Agasikrates, grain-land: of one-artaba land 11 1/2 1/8 arouras, and of two-artaba land 2 1/2 1/4 1/8 1/32 arouras, the whole being 14 1/2 1/32 arouras in a single block, having paid him the price for these in full, on the terms and all the conditions set out in the sale, as the agreement contains. Having attached to this petition the official notice of it that was sent on to the keepers of the property records, we submit it, asking you to instruct the same keepers of the property records to make the necessary entry. Year 9 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Pius Felix Augustus, Thoth 14. We, the Aurelii Ptollion and Apion also called Ammonios, both kosmetai, have submitted it through Apion also called Ammonios.