Fragment of a contract mentioning a guarantee and unflooded land TM 17828Panopolis217 - 218

Small fragment of a Greek contract from Panopolis, dated AD 217-218. Phrases survive about land not being flooded, a guarantee of title, a sale, a party who writes slowly, and the emperor's name in the dating formula.

In English machine translation

The phrase 'because he writes slowly' is the standard clause used when a semi-literate party had someone else sign for them. The restoration of 'not flooded' rests on only a few letters.

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