A declaration to the keepers of property records at Panopolis by the priestess Aurelia Senpasis, registering her purchase of a one-thirtieth share of a house and of one aroura of land, bought from Aurelia Artemidora under Probus. The contract had been officially published in Alexandria, and the record-keeper acknowledges receipt for entry in AD 289.
In English machine translation
To the keepers of the property records of the Panopolite nome,
from Aurelia Senpasis daughter of Pasis, her mother being Tansnos, priestess, from Panopolis. I register with you today a right of purchase of a thirtieth part of a house, together with the outbuilding belonging to it, in the 2nd quarter of Panopolis, formerly (the quarter) of Harsytes, and likewise of one aroura in the plain of Marion, on the west of (the land of) the daughters of Dioskoros son of Kalykas, made over to me by a written contract in duplicate in the 7th year of Probus, in the month Pauni, by Aurelia Artemidora daughter of Besarion the younger, her mother being Eudaimonis, through Aurelius Eudaimon also called Philopator, her husband, from the same city, which (contract) was made public by me in the current 5th and 4th year, in the month Pauni, through the registry office in Alexandria, under Claudius Philotas also called Hierax, priest and chief judge; and I ask, submitting to you the publication as an extraordinary entry, that the necessary annotation be made under my name as is proper; and I swear by the Fortune of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti that the foregoing is true.
Year 5 and 4 of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti, Mesore, 4th intercalary day.
I, Aurelia Senpasis daughter of Pasis, the aforesaid, make the registration as stated above. Aurelius Petearbeschinis son of Horos, priest, her husband, wrote for her.
I, Aurelius Hierax also called Moros, former gymnasiarch, keeper of records, have received a copy of this for entry, at the risk of the registrant.
The 'keepers of property records' (bibliophylakes enkteseon) maintained the register of private property ownership. Demosiosis was the procedure of officially publishing a private contract through the Alexandrian registry (katalogeion).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration 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.