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Sale of a share in a three-storey house at Antinoopolis TM 20908Antinoopolis, Antinoopolite nome, province of Egypt282 or 283 A.D.

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A fragmentary contract of sale from Antinoopolis, AD 283, in which inherited shares in a three-storey house are sold to Aurelius Hermapollon, a city councillor, and his wife Arete for 1,400 silver drachmas. The parties are Antinoite citizens identified by tribe and deme.

In English machine translation

Year […] of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Carus and Marcus Aurelius Carinus, Germanici Maximi, and Marcus Aurelius Numerianus, the most illustrious Caesars, Pii Felices Augusti, month of Pyanopsion […] From […] Harpokration also called S[…], of the Nervian tribe and Genearchian deme, in Antinoopolis the illustrious and most illustrious city, and Aurelius Anoubion son of Herminos, of the Matidian […] […] to Aurelii Hermapollon Le[…], of the Sabinian tribe and Gamalian deme, councillor of the same city, and his wife Arete, of the same parents, tribe and deme, acting without a guardian by the right of children according to the customs of the Romans, whose […] […] of […] and Anoubion of the Nervian tribe […] […] to Hermapollon and Arete […] from now for all time […] of the shares that have come down to them by inheritance […] in accordance with the will which he made […] a third (?) twelfth part […] of a share of a three-storey house with its fixtures […] in partnership with others […] the shares of the whole house, of which the neighbours are […] to the south a public street, through which is the entrance […] street and however it is described, to the east […] of Lysias and others […] […] for the price agreed between them of 1,400 drachmas of silver of the Augusti coinage […] the aforementioned Hermapollon and Arete […] after the […] therefore from now they are to possess and own, with their descendants who will succeed to the shares, as aforesaid, of the half-twelfth […] the same with […] performing concerning it […] of the sellers, of silver […] and to me from all the […] of shares […] and the other […] the […] having become […] father (?) […] the full price and […] […] I wrote on her behalf, as she does not know letters. […]

Pyanopsion is a Greek month name used at Antinoopolis in place of the Egyptian calendar; another record gives AD 282 or 283. Arete acts without a guardian under the Roman 'right of children' (ius liberorum).

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 a Share in a House). 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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Sale of a share in house

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Corn. Inv. II 15 · 282 or 283 A.D. · Antinoopolis, Antinoopolite nome, province of Egypt

A rather fragmentary contract in which a share in a house located in the city of Antinoopolis is sold. The parties involved in the contract are mainly unknown, although it is clear that two of these persons were Roman citizens, enrolled by phyles and demes in the city.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 25. Juni - 24. Juli 283 · Antinoopolis

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