Gift of catoecic land near Seryphis from a mother to her daughter TM 20544Oxyrhynchos24. Juni 95
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A deed of gift from Oxyrhynchus dated 24 June AD 95, in which Julia Herakla, acting with a guardian appointed by the former prefect, irrevocably cedes 5 arouras of catoecic land near Seryphis to her underage daughter Gaia also called Sarapias. The daughter may register the land in her own name without her mother's co-signature.
In English machine translation
Catoecic land was land originally held by military settlers, transferable through special registers (katalochismoi). The guardian Lucius Ofellius Anthestius Theon appears to be named in a clause where the syntax is compressed in the original.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Cession of Land). 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.2.273
ἔτους τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Δομιτιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ, μηνὸς Παῦνι λ, ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει τῆς Θηβαίδος. ὁμολογεῖ Ἰουλία Ἡρακλᾶ μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ δεδομένου αὐτῇ κατὰ τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἔθη ὑπὸ Γαίου Σεπτιμίου Οὐεγέτου τοῦ ἡγεμονεύσαντος ἀκολούθως τῇ γενομένῃ ταβέλλῃ Λ…