A Greek sale contract drawn up before the agoranomos's deputy Ammonios, in which Etpeesis daughter of Pates, with her husband as guardian, sells her share of grain land and a portion of a plot at Tmonobit to Horos son of Nechoutes for one talent of bronze. It is preceded by a short abstract of the deed and dates to 20 November 98 BC, probably from the Pathyris region.
In English machine translation
[1]
Year 17, Hathyr 5.
Etpeesis daughter of Pates sold the portion of grain-bearing dry land belonging to her, and from another plot in the village of Tmonobit, in 8 arouras, the same portion.
Horos son of Nechoutes bought it, for 1 talent of bronze.
[2]
In the reign of Ptolemy surnamed Alexander and Berenike his sister, gods Philometores, year 17, Hathyr 5, in the time of the priests and priestesses and the kanephoros in office, at Krokodilopolis, before Ammonios, deputy of Paniskos, agoranomos. Etpeesis daughter of Pates, Persian woman, about […] years old, of medium height (?), honey-coloured, straight-haired, round-faced, straight-nosed, with as her guardian her own husband P[…] son of […], Persian, about 30 years old, of medium height, honey-coloured, straight-haired, long-faced, straight-nosed, sold the grain-bearing dry land belonging to her in the plain around Pathyris (?), which she bought from Nechthanoupis, in which her brothers have an undivided share, about […] arouras, whose neighbours are: to the south (?) the land of Kottabos, to the north the land of Paous son of Horpa[…] and his partners (?), to the east the land of the same (?), to the west (?) the bare places of […]; and from another plot in the village of Tmonobit, in 8 arouras, the part falling to her in the lower plain, 9 schoinia, whoever the neighbours may be on all sides. Horos son of Nechoutes, Persian of the epigone, about 40 years old, of medium height, honey-coloured, slightly stooping (?), round-faced, straight-nosed, bought it for 1 talent of bronze coinage. Guarantor and warrantor of everything concerning this sale: Etpeesis the seller, whom Horos the buyer accepted.
I, Ammonios, deputy of Paniskos, have registered it.
The document has the usual double form: a brief summary (part 1) and the full agoranomic deed (part 2). Many details in the lost right-hand portions of part 2, including the place Krokodilopolis and the neighbours, are editorial restorations.
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 Land, at the Office of the Agoranomus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.