Fragment of a document from the property record office at Oxyrhynchus, apparently registering a privately written sale involving Aurelius Agathinos also called Horigenes and other residents of the city. It refers to the regnal years of the emperors and the consulship of Diocletian and Maximianus and is dated 11 January 300.
In English machine translation
[…] from the property record office (bibliotheke enkteseon) […]
[…] … memorandum 16, year 15, year 8, Tybi 15 […]
[…] our [lords] Constantius and Maximianus the […]
[…] year 8 of our lords Constantius […]
[…] of Aurelius Agathinos also called Horigenes […]
[…] whose mother is Annous, from the illustrious and most illustrious […]
[…] son of …tion, whose mother is Severa, from the same [city] […]
[…] Maximus, from the same city, a handwritten [sale] […]
[…] the one acknowledging, to the official in charge of the record office […]
[…] in the 7th [consulship] of Diocletian and the 6th of Maximianus, [Augusti] […]
[…] … according to the customs of the Romans […]
[…] of the city, of the [sacred victors] from the ephebate […]
[…] for all time … […]
[…] also called Sarapias, from the […]
[…] all [the property] belonging to it […]
[… lines lost …]
The bibliotheke enkteseon was the archive recording ownership of real property. The 'handwritten sale' (idiographon) was a private deed, here apparently being lodged for public registration; 'sale' is restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Frammento di documento della βιβλιοθήκη τῶν ἐγκτήσεων). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.