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Fragment of a memorandum by a woman named Chairemonis, acting with her husband Serapodidymos as guardian, announcing an intended sale of land totalling about 38 3/4 arouras. She asks that the agoranomoi (notarial officials) at Busiris be instructed to draw up the contract. It is dated Tybi 1 of year 9 of Septimius Severus and Caracalla (27 December 200) in the Herakleopolite nome.
The agoranomoi were the officials who registered and executed private contracts; such notices preceded the drafting of a sale. The beginning, with the property description and parties, is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anzeige des beabsichtigten Verkaufs von Land). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] α ἀρούρας γ 𐅵 δ ἐν βσφραγῖσιν, ὧν α σφραγῖδος ἄρουραι β, τῆς δὲ β σφραγῖδος ἄρουρα α 𐅵 δ, τὰς ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ἀρούρας λη 𐅵 δ ιϛ. διὸ ἐπιδίδωμι τόδε τὸ ὑπόμνημα, ὅπως ἐπισταλῇ ἀγορανόμοις περὶ Βουσῖριν τελειῶσαι τὸν χρηματισμὸν ὡς καθήκει. ἔτους θ Αὐτοκρατόρων Καισά…
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