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Sale of a share of undivided land at Hermopolis TM 19430Hermopolis142 - 143

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A contract registered before the agoranomos at Hermopolis in AD 142-143, in which Didymos son of Hermaios, of the Polis East quarter, sells to a woman, acting with her brother Totheus as guardian, a fractional share of undivided arable land from a kleros for 1,000 silver drachmas. It includes the usual clauses on ownership, produce, taxes and a guarantee against claims.

In English machine translation

Year 6 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus […] Didymos son of Hermaios acknowledges, registered in the quarter of Polis East, aged about 41, […] with […] […] with her guardian, her brother Totheus, of the same parents, aged about … […] that the acknowledging party has sold […] arouras […] one fourth and one sixty-fourth, which he will also hand over in the field, sown, full […] three, as the seller has declared; on the south, the heirs of Theon son of Theon […] and the price agreed between them of silver of the Imperial coinage, 1,000 drachmas […] the seller has received […] and that the ownership and possession of the arouras […] one fourth and one sixty-fourth belong to the buyer and her successors […] the annual produce and all that will accrue from now for all time […] […] of the owner being the responsibility of the seller, but those from the present sixth year […] to the seller, who shall not proceed against the buyer nor shall anyone else on his behalf […] anyone proceeding against the buyer or her successors, both the damages and expenses […] [Subscription] the [arouras] belonging to me from the kleros of Aristodoros (?) around […] sixty-fourth, being in common and undivided arouras […] I, Didymos son of Hermaios, have sold and received the price and […] and share (?) […] agoranomos […]

The seller's name in line 1 is an editorial restoration based on the subscription. An agoranomos was the public notary before whom such sales were registered.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Agoranomischer Kaufvertrag über Grundbesitz). 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 · 142 - 143 · Hermopolis

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