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Registration of inherited property at Toemesis with the record office TM 20415Toemesis (Herakleopolites)28. Aug. 131

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A declaration of inherited property submitted by the brothers Gorgias and Galestes of Toemesis to the keepers of property records of the Herakleopolite nome, registering house shares, a vacant plot and small parcels of catoecic land inherited from their father Polemon. It ends with an oath by Hadrian's fortune and an official filing note, dated 28 August AD 131.

In English machine translation

To Heras and Origenes, former gymnasiarchs, keepers of the property records of the Herakleopolite nome, from Gorgias and Galestes, both sons of Polemon son of Gorgias, their mother being Dionysias daughter of Galestes, of the village of Toemesis. We register at our own risk, jointly and in equal shares, for the present 15th year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, in accordance with the orders, the property that has come to us from the name of our deceased father Polemon son of Gorgias, his mother being Tapontos, of the same Toemesis: the third share of a house belonging to him in the same Toemesis and the share of a vacant plot belonging to him; and, formerly the property of his sister Helene daughter of Gorgias, of the same mother Tapontos, by a will which was opened in the 12th year of Hadrian Caesar the lord, near the village of Ibion Pachnoubis, from the allotment of Zoilos and Noumenios, 1/2 1/4 1/8 (aroura) of catoecic land, and near Pselemachis, from the allotment of Menippos and Artemidoros, 1/4 aroura of catoecic land. And we swear by the fortune of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus and by our ancestral gods that we have submitted the foregoing registration soundly and truthfully and have made no false statement, or may we be liable to the oath. Year 15 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, month Kaisareios, 5th intercalary day. I, Gorgias, the aforementioned, have submitted it. I, Heras, former gymnasiarch, through Hippod(...), the appointed secretary, have filed it without examination, at the risk of those registering, with no harm done to any public or private interest. 5th intercalary day.

Catoecic land was land originally held by military settlers, later freely transferable private land. Kaisareios is the Roman-era name for the month Mesore; the intercalary days follow it.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Registration of Property). 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 · 28. Aug. 131 · Toemesis (Herakleopolites)

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