A private deed of sale from Panopolis in which Aurelius Hierax alias Eustephios, an Alexandrian councillor acting through his father Aurelius Eudaimon, sells to Aurelia Artemidora a share of a house and one aroura of planted land for 2 talents. It is dated to Pharmouthi of year 6 of Probus (AD 281).
In English machine translation
Aurelius Hierax also called Eustephios, councillor of the most splendid city of the Alexandrians, […]
[…] through me his father Aurelius Eudaimon son of Serenos, councillor of the same city, being authorized, to Aurelia Artemidora daughter of Besarion, her mother being Eudaimonis, and however you are styled, from Panopolis, greeting.
I acknowledge that I have sold to you, in the 2nd quarter in the same Panopolis, the one-thirtieth (?) share belonging to me of a common house, with the usable appurtenance belonging to it […] […] to Harsytes […] for the fifth year, risking (?) from Harsytes, whose boundaries are shown in the deeds concerning it; and likewise in the same Panopolis one aroura in the plain of Marion, on the west, of the daughter of Dioskoros son of Kalykas, bought by me as dry land and planted at my own expense, the boundaries of which likewise are shown in the deeds concerning it. The aforesaid I acquired by right of prior purchase in year 5 of Probus Augustus, Pachon 3, from Philapollon son of Philapollon, through Aurelius Didymos in most splendid Alexandria, through Aurelius Isidoros, public notary. I have sold them to you by purchase and sale for the price agreed with you for both, 2 talents of silver in old Ptolemaic coinage, which I have received from you through me, the aforesaid father Aurelius Eudaimon, in full from hand to hand, so that from now on you may own, possess and manage what has been sold to you as you choose, collecting the revenues and paying the public dues; and I will guarantee them to you with every guarantee at all times against every claimant. This deed of sale, written in duplicate in my own hand, I have issued to you, and let it be valid and secure as if registered in a public office, and whenever you wish I will present it to you for public registration; and having been asked whether these things were rightly and properly done, I acknowledged it.
Year 6 of our lord Probus Augustus, Pharmouthi.
Aurelius Hierax also called Eustephios, councillor of the most splendid […]
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This is a duplicate copy of the deed, written in double as the text itself states. The size of the house share is partly restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sale of House and 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.