Protocol and beginning of a sale of a half share of 16 arouras TM 20833Hermopolites

Opening of a sale contract from the Hermopolite nome, preceded by a protocol from the head of the papyrus roll. A Flavius […], son of Phoibammon, an official on the staff of the governor of the Thebaid from Hermopolis, sells to Flavius Sarapodoros a half share of 16 arouras of land with a cistern, farmstead and plants; the date falls after the consulship of Valentinian III (7th) and Avienus, Phaophi 9 of the 5th indiction (October AD 451).

In English machine translation

The protocol, with the Christian cryptogram χμγ and the names of officials, comes from the factory-stamped first sheet of the roll and is separate from the contract text. 'Writing slowly' (bradeos graphon) marks the seller as barely literate. The docket on the back summarizes the sale; the operative clauses are lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Protokoll und Fragment einer Verkaufsurkunde). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.