A declaration from Oxyrhynchus, AD 249-251, addressed to the keepers of the property archives by Aurelius Nikephoros, registering an old two-towered house in the Dromos of Thoeris quarter that he acquired from Aurelius Soterichos by an agreement made through the registry office. He submits the official copy of the agreement and states the house had not been registered by the seller.
In English machine translation
Filed.
To the Aurelii Dioskourides also called Achillioniskos and Apollonios, former exegetai, both councillors, keepers of the archives,
from Aurelius Nikephoros also called Panares, son of Athenodoros also called Kornelios, grandson of Theon, his mother being Tapontos, from the city of Oxyrhynchus. By an agreement drawn up through the registry office in the 5th year of the previous reign, in the month of Pharmouthi, there was conveyed to me by Aurelius Soterichos son of Didymos, grandson of Didymos, his mother being Ptollarous, from the same city, the old two-towered house belonging to him in the same city in the quarter of the Dromos of Thoeris, in the so-called Kleopatrion, and all its appurtenances, as the agreement contains; the official copy of which, sent back to us from the examination, I submit to you together with identical copies. I submit the memorandum, and I declare that Soterichos has not registered the aforementioned house, nor is it (?) from the adjacent [...] to him [...] of the deposit of the [...] of Soterichos [...] [...] mother [...] [...]
The bibliophylakes were the keepers of the property record office (enkteseon bibliotheke). 'Two-towered' (dipyrgiaia) describes a house with two tower-like upper structures.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Registration of a House after Purchase). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.