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Sale of a house at Soknopaiou Nesos TM 219249Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)37 - 69

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Fragment of a contract in which Tesenouphis son of Satabous and a man named […]papais with his wife sell their house in Soknopaiou Nesos to a buyer whose mother was Erieus. Scribes wrote for the illiterate parties, and a descriptive summary with ages and identifying marks follows. It dates to the mid-1st century AD.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] Tesenouphis son of Satabous, [mother …] […]papais and his wife […] [… we acknowledge that we have sold …] [… to …]s, mother Erieus, the house belonging to us [in the village of Soknopaiou Nesos of the] Herakleides division, [whose neighbours are]: on the south, the house of Harpagathes […], [on the north] […], [on the west] […], [on the east] […] […] and we have received the agreed price in full, and we will guarantee it with every guarantee for all time as stated above. Panephrymmis […] wrote on their behalf because they do not know letters. […] [mother Erieus: I have bought as stated above. Papais son of Petesouchos wrote] on his behalf because he does not know letters. [Sale and cession of a house] [in] Soknopaiou Nesos, whose neighbours are as stated above, made by Tesenouphis [son of Satabous, mother …] […]papais, aged […] and […] […] aged 55 […] [to] […] the elder, [mother Erieus, aged] […] [scar] […] on the left forehead. Subscriber for the sellers: Panephrymmis […], aged […]. [Subscriber for the buyer: Papais son of Petesouchos, aged] […] […] [of … Caesar Augustus Germanicus] Imperator […]

Described as bilingual, so the lost opening lines were probably in Demotic. Much of the Greek wording is restored from standard sale formulas.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of a bilingual sale of a house). 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 · 37 - 69 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

[… ? lines lost …] [… 6 lines lost …] Τεσενοῦφις Σαταβοῦτος μητρὸς […]παπάις καὶ ἡ τούτου γυνὴ […]. ὁμολογοῦμεν πεπρακέναι […] […]ς μητρὸς Ἐριεῦτος τὴνὑπαρχοῦσαν ἡμῖν οἰκίαν ἐν κώμῃ Σοκνοπαίου Nήσῳ τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος ἧς γείτονες· νότου Ἁρπαγάθου οἰκία […], βορρᾶ […], λιβὸς [……