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Cession of land to Aurelius Claudianus alias Sarapammon TM 20951Oxyrhynchos

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Fragmentary contract from Oxyrhynchus in which Didyme and two other residents of the city cede to Aurelius Claudianus, also called Sarapammon, in perpetuity a holding of about 4 1/4 arouras of sown and unflooded land, giving him the right to take its produce. It may be a hereditary lease or a cession of land rights.

In English machine translation

[Fragment A] [Didyme] […], daughter of […]rgos (?), her mother being […]tos, from the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites […] [and] […] son of Zoilos, his mother being Demetria, from the same city, with as guardian (?) the hexastrooios (?) […] […], son of […]onios, his mother being Sarapias, from the same city, to Aurelius Claudianus also called Sarapammon […] […] and however he is styled, greetings. We acknowledge that we have ceded to you from now for all [time] […] […] through the books of the temple […] to those […] the […] from us jointly in equal shares […] […] from the […] of Aristodemos and Protos and Hermaios and […] […] of sown [land] 1/2 1/4 aroura, of unflooded land 3 1/2 arouras, making together [4] 1/4 [arouras], with their boundaries, locations and kinds as they are in the fields, on condition that you and those acting for you […] […] take possession of what falls to me, Didyme, [by] […] of my aforementioned […] […] near the same [village] […] from the aforesaid allotment […] of the basin (?) […] […] you, carrying off for yourself what is produced from them from the [present time], paying […] […] and damages […] of the present […] and […] [Fragment B] […] crown […] […] and of Sarapion […] […] who will receive […] of those registered (?) […] […] of […]amon, 828 talents […] [… ? lines lost …]

The catalogue tentatively classifies the document as a hereditary lease (emphyteusis), though the wording 'ceded to you for all time' could also suggest a cession. The sum of 828 talents in fragment B points to a date in the later Roman period, but no date is preserved.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Erbpacht?). 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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