Contract of sale (cession) in which Aurelius Apollonides of Antinoopolis sells 7 1/4 arouras of private land for 1,000 drachmas, guaranteeing title and freedom from charges and agreeing to public registration. Dated in the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus.
In English machine translation
[…] Aurelius Apollonides […]
[…] of Aurelia Ap[…]
[…] … […] Aurel[…]
[…] of […]otion … […]
[…] from the city of the Antinoites […] I acknowledge […]
[…] that I have sold to you from now for all time […]
[… 3 lines lost …]
[…] of the kleros (?) […] of private land, aroura(s) […]
[…] on the south a plot, on the north (land) of Dionysos […] on the east […]
[…] […] embankment, on the west the […]
[…] for … […]
[…] 7 1/4 arouras […]
1,000 drachmas on the spot […] which I have received
in full; wherefore from now on you are to possess and own […]
with your descendants and those who will succeed you, the ceded arouras […]
and to use and manage them […]
which I will also guarantee to you [always against]
all persons with every guarantee, and free from […]
[…] of estate (ousiac) land and from every […] and from labour
and guarding of the embankments against water and […]
[…] and from public […]
[…] of every kind up to the epagomenal days
and including the epagomenal days of the current […] year, since from
the coming […] year their proceeds belong to you, the recipient of the cession, to whom also belong from the same coming
year all charges of every kind. The contract, written […], is valid, which, whenever you choose, you will register publicly through the record office, without needing my participation, since
I hereby consent to the future public registration.
And being asked by you whether this has been done rightly and properly,
I acknowledged it. Year […] of the Emperors Caesars
Publius Licinius Valerianus and Publius Licinius Valerianus
Gallienus, Pii Felices Augusti […]
[…] (I,) Aurelius Apollonides […]
[…] Apollonides … […] …
[…] for […] I wrote […] has been ceded and […] arouras as aforesaid and […]
[…] I consent to the future public registration […]
[… ? lines lost …]
The seller is described as from Antinoopolis; the place where the document was written is not recorded. 'Ousiac' land refers to former imperial estate land.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contracts, deeds of sale, etc.). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.