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Notification of intended sale with archive keepers' authorization to the agoranomoi TM 21095Herakleopolites192

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End of a notification of intended sale of property from the Herakleopolite nome, dated year 32 of Commodus (AD 192). It is followed by the authorization of the archive keeper Sarapion, through his secretary, instructing the agoranomoi to draw up the deed concerning Phebichis son of Tosachmis.

In English machine translation

[1] … [2] […] […] Year 32 of Imperator Caesar Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus Pius Felix Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Sarmaticus Germanicus Maximus Britannicus […] […] I, the aforementioned, have submitted (this). […] … I wrote on his behalf, since he does not know letters. […] … […] […] … […] Sarapion, former gymnasiarch, keeper of the archives, through Herakleios also called Nemes, son of Artemidoros, secretary, to the agoranomoi, concerning Phebichis son of Tosachmis. In accordance with the registration made before me, execute the transaction as [...] and as is proper, at the risk of the aforementioned, the treasury having the right of first execution, with no damage being done to any public or private interest […] … […] […]

Such notices (prosangeliai) were submitted to the property archive (bibliotheke enkteseon) before land could be sold; the archive then authorized the agoranomoi to register the contract. The phrase 'ὡς π' is abbreviated and unclear.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anzeigen der beabsichtigten Veräußerung von Grundbesitz (ΠΡΟΣΑΓΓΕΛΙΑΙ)). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 192 · Herakleopolites

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