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Order to register a sale of plots near the Sarapeion to priests TM 20511Oxyrhynchos (Oxyrhynchites, Ägypten)8. Dez. 77

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An order from Claudius Antoninus to the agoranomos (record office) of Oxyrhynchos to register the sale of partly walled plots north of the precinct of Sarapis to a group of priests and stolistai, on condition that the land remain for the god's use and not be resold or leased. A note from the tax farmers confirms payment of the sales tax (enkyklion). Dated 8 December AD 77.

In English machine translation

[Claudius Antoninus to the agoranomos, greetings.] [Register a sale …] [… lines lost …] […]tos daughter of Phatreus, and to Apis son of Harpaesis son of A[…], his mother being Tausorapis daughter of Harthoonis, the […] priests of Thoeris and Isis and Sarapis and the associated most great gods, and to Harthoonis and Paeis, who are also stolistai of the same gods, of what the vendor happens to have bought from Dionysia also called Taamois daughter of Dionysia daughter of Epimachos in the month Kaisareios of the past ninth year, at the Sarapeion near the city of Oxyrhynchos, on the Hermaion lane, on the north […] Dionysia also called Taamois has left, north of the precinct of Sarapis the most great god, a width of half a cubit, of plots partly walled round, together with the loads (of material?) lying on them, on condition that the purchasers leave the plots to the lord Sarapis for the use of the same god and wall round the remaining parts, and that they do not make the same plots rent-paying, so that they remain for the use of the same god and of the temple, nor shall they be permitted to sell them to others in any way; which they bought on these terms from Thermouthion daughter of Dionysios son of Thoonis, her mother being Teseuris daughter of Petosorapis, with her guardian, her husband Kephalon son of Harthoonis son of Euboulos, his mother being Thaesis, all from the city of Oxyrhynchos, at a price of 692 silver drachmas, 51 talents 5,400 (?) bronze drachmas. Farewell. Year 10 of Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, Choiak 12. Claudius Antoninus: carry out the business. Alexandros and partners to the agoranomoi, greetings. Harthoonis son of Harthoonis and the priests with him have paid on the 13th of Choiak the enkyklion tax, according to the bank order they hold, 5 talents 1,140 (?) bronze drachmas reckoned against silver. Farewell.

Stolistai were priests responsible for dressing the cult statues. The figures 'Ευ' and 'Αρμ' after the talent sums are read here as drachma amounts in Greek numerals, which is uncertain.

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 a Sale). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.oxy.2.242

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 8. Dez. 77 · Oxyrhynchos (Oxyrhynchites, Ägypten)

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