Opening of a Greek contract of sale drawn up before the agoranomos (notary) at Poinkoris in the Diopolite nome in year 16 of Ptolemy X Alexander. The boy Horos son of Hermias, with his kinswoman Arsinoe and her guardian, sells to Horos son of Nechouthes inherited farmland near Krokodilopolis in the Pathyrite nome and 300 cubits of bare building plots at the village of Mouchis.
In English machine translation
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In the reign of Ptolemy also called Alexander, god Philometor, and Berenike [his sister, goddess Philadelphos], in the sixteenth year, in the time of the priests and priestesses and the kanephoros in office, [in the month of Pharmouthi] […], at Poinkoris of the lower toparchy of the Libyan side of the Diopolite nome, [before] […] [the deputy of] […] the agoranomos. Horos son of Hermias, aged about 12, sold, with [his kinswoman co-selling], Arsinoe daughter of Belles, aged about 22, of medium height, honey-coloured, round-faced, [straight-nosed, a scar on the forehead] on the right, with her guardian Ptolemaios son of Psenmenches, aged about 35, of medium height […], [all] of those from the Pathyrite nome, the land belonging to the father of Horos, of […] arouras, [in the upper] plain of Krokodilopolis, from one parcel registered to Psenm[…] of the five-aroura holders; neighbours: to the south, land of Petesouchos son of Hermias; to the north, land of Belles and [his brothers (?); to the east] the rest of the parcel; to the west, land of Horos son of Nechouthes, the buyer. Likewise [also from the] bare plots [belonging] to them in the western part of the village of Mouchis, of seven arouras, three hundred [solid] cubits [by royal measure], whose neighbours are: to the south, the house of Pkois, which […] owns, [to the north] the remaining plots, to the east the royal street, to the west the remaining plots, or whoever [may be the neighbours on all sides].
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The agoranomos was a public notary who registered contracts. The second column, with the price and remaining clauses, is lost; the month and several descriptive details are editorial restorations.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sale of Land, at the Office of the Agoranomus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.