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Sale of a monastic cell and workshop at Phathor TM 21459Phathor (Herakleopolites)15. Sept. 323

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A contract of sale in which Aurelius, originally from a village in the Oxyrhynchite nome but living on the mountain of Phathor, sells to a monk of the same mountain a monastic dwelling (cell with workshop, further cells, a small linen-weaving workshop and other rooms) that he inherited from the priest Dioskoros. It was drawn up on 15 September 323 at Phathor in the Herakleopolite nome.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of [...] the most illustrious, Thoth 17. Aurelius [...] from the village of [...] of the Oxyrhynchite nome, now residing on the mountain called Phathor of the Herakleopolite nome, to Aurelius E[...] son of [...], monk of the same mountain of Phathor, greeting. I acknowledge that I have sold and ceded to you by this written security, from now continuously for all time, the [house], workshop or cell, belonging to me and come to me by right of inheritance from Dioskoros the priest, [...] on the east of the great river on the same mountain of Phathor, having two other cells opening to the north and a small linen-weaving workshop, in which a [...] oven (?) [...] and a small bedroom on the roof and [...] and a hut [...] of the monk (?), with storeroom and keys and all fittings [...] for the price agreed between us [...] [...], of which the neighbours [...] [... lines lost ...]

Kella is the term for a monk's cell; the text is an early witness to monastic property dealings. The reading of the room called that of the monk (nouthbeos?) is a damaged restoration.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Verkauf eines Hauses). 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 · 15. Sept. 323 · Phathor (Herakleopolites)

ὑπατείας[…]τῶνλαμπροτάτων Θὼθ ιζ Αὐρήλιος[…]… ἀπὸ κώμης […] τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ, νῦν δὲ καταγινομένου ἐν ὄρει καλουμένῳ Φαθὼρ τοῦ Ἡρακλεοπολίτου νομοῦ Αὐρηλίῳ Ε[…]…β…[…]ωι […]ου μοναχῷ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ὄρους Φαθὼρ χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ πεπρακέναι καὶ παρακεχωρηκέναι σοι κατὰ τήνδε τὴν ἔγγρ…