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Sale of land by Herakleides to Achillis TM 19444Oxyrhynchites29. Sept. 202

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Fragment of a contract of sale of real property, drawn up as an agreement, in which Herakleides sells land (arouras) to a woman named Achillis for a sum in silver drachmas and guarantees the property free of claims, taxes and liabilities. It is dated 29 September 202 AD in the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] through [...] [...] drachmas of silver of the imperial coinage [...] from Achillis [...] in full, immediately, from hand to hand out of [the house] [...] Achillis with [...] of the property being conveyed [...] belongings [...] concerning it as she may choose; which [Herakleides shall guarantee to Achillis] securely [for all time against all claims] with every guarantee, and free from [cultivation of royal and estate] land and of every kind [whatsoever and of every registration] of men, and the arouras [...] all, and [free from every public] and private [debt] and from every [other kind whatsoever for all] time, and from public dues and [all] taxes [and from] all kinds of [assessments] up to [the past tenth year] and including the past tenth [year itself, because the revenues from] this current year belong [to the purchaser (?), and] Herakleides [shall] immediately repel at his own [expense] anyone who brings a claim in any manner whatsoever, [as if by judgment]. Year eleven of the Emperors [Caesars Lucius Septimius] Severus Pius Pertinax [Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus] Maximus and Marcus Aurelius [Antoninus Pius] Augusti, Phaophi 2. [...] [...] [...]

The document takes the form of a synchoresis, a contract registered before an official in Alexandria-style formula. Much of the guarantee clause is restored from standard formulas.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Immobiliarkaufvertrag in Form einer συγχώρησις). 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 · 29. Sept. 202 · Oxyrhynchites

[… ? lines lost …] […] διὰ […]ἀργυρίου Σεβαστῶν νομίσματος δραχμὰς […]παρὰ τῆς Ἀχιλλίδος […]ἐκ πλήρους παραχρῆμα διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου[…]Ἀχιλλίδα σὺν […] τοῦ καταγραφομένου[…] ὑπαρχόντων […]περὶ αὐτοῦ ὡς ἐὰν αἱρῆται· ὅπερ μὲν παρέξεσθαι τῇ Ἀχιλλίδι τὸν Ἡρακλείδην βέβαιον διὰ παντὸς…