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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

Year 14 of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, month of Pauni 30, in the city of the Oxyrhynchi in the Thebaid. Julia Herakla, with as guardian the one given to her according to Roman custom by Gaius Septimius Vegetus the former prefect, in accordance with the tablet drawn up, Lucius Ofellius son of Lucius, of the tribe Oufentina, Anthestius Theon son of Nikippos son of Nikippos, of the Phylaxithalasseian tribe and Althaean deme, acknowledges in the street that she has ceded to her own daughter Gaia also called Sarapias, daughter of Pausanias also called Dionysios son of Astyanax son of Tryphon, of the Phylaxithalasseian tribe and Herakleian deme, who is not yet of age, from now for all time as an irrevocable gift, out of the 15 arouras belonging to her near Seryphis in the western toparchy from the kleros of Nikandros, from whichever part of them she chooses, 5 arouras of catoecic land in total, which Gaia also called Sarapias shall be permitted on the basis of this agreement to have transferred to her own name through the catoecic registers, without needing the co-registration of her mother Julia Herakla. Gaia also called Sarapias shall therefore hold and own them, with her descendants and those who will succeed to them from her […] […]

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 24. Juni 95 · Oxyrhynchos

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…