Registration, Roman CE 80, Oct 10
Of inherited property
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Registration of an inherited share of a house at Oxyrhynchus TM 20518OxyrhynchosRoman CE 80, Oct 10
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A registration of inherited property submitted to the keepers of the property archives at Oxyrhynchus by Diogas son of Teos. He declares a third of a sixth share of a jointly owned house in the Garden of Pammenes quarter, which came to him under the will of his childless brother Poplios. Dated 10 October AD 80.
In English machine translation
To Epimachos and Theon, keepers of the archives,
from Diogas son of Teos, grandson of Kentauros, his mother being Apia daughter of Protas, of those from the city of Oxyrhynchus. I register in accordance with the orders, apart from what I registered previously, also now what has devolved upon me from the estate of my full brother Poplios, of those from the same city, who died childless in the 10th year of the deified Vespasian: in the same city, in the so-called Garden of Pammenes, a third part of a sixth part of a house held in common with me and my brothers and others, in accordance with the will which he made through the agoranomos office in the same city in the month of Tybi of the 10th year, as it contains.
Year 3 of Imperator Titus Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, Phaophi 13.
The bibliophylakes were the keepers of the property record office (bibliotheke enkteseon), where changes in ownership were registered. The agoranomeion was the notarial office where contracts and wills were drawn up.
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.
p.oxy.2.249
Ἐπιμάχωι καὶ Θέωνι βιβλιοφύλαξι παρὰ Διογᾶτος τοῦ Τεῶτος τοῦ Κενταύρου μητρὸς Ἀπίας τῆς Πρωτᾶτος τῶν ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. ἀπογράφομαι κατὰ τὰ προστεταγμένα χωρὶς ὧν προαπεγραψάμην καὶ νῦν τὸ κατηντηκὸς εἴς με ἐξ ὀνόματος τοῦ ὁμογνησίου μου ἀδελφοῦ Ποπλίου τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεω…