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Fragment of a sale of house property TM 20229unbekannt138 - 160 (?)

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Fragment of a contract, apparently a sale of part of a house with adjoining vacant plots, dated in the reign of Antoninus Pius. It names a woman whose mother was Tamystha, a husband Lucius Lo[…], and a payment made through the bank of Sarapion at the gymnasium, with a guarantee against claims.

In English machine translation

[Year …] of [Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus] Pius, month of Thoth […] […] and Pitin[…] […] […] mother Tamystha, daughter of Didymos son of […] […] son of Sabinus, aged about […] years […] […] in the aforementioned city Ap[…] […] in the aforementioned village P[…] […] on the existing parts of the whole house […] […] on the terms on which it was held […] […] of the husband Lucius Lo[…] […] vacant plots; to the west […] […] Heron the aforementioned […] […] of what was sold to her as aforesaid […] […] through the bank of Sarapion at the gymnasium […] […] to her as aforesaid […] […] and free from every […] […] claim upon the […] [… 1 line lost …]

The restoration of the emperor's name rests on the surviving epithet Pius (Eusebes). The bank 'of Sarapion at the gymnasium' is partly restored.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract). 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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p.aberd.179

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 138 - 160 (?)

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