A contract of sale from Oxyrhynchus in which Sarapammon and his son Damas, also called Sarapammon, sell a courtyard in the Chenoboskoi quarter to a neighbour for 200 silver drachmas. It includes the boundaries, a guarantee of title and a subscription written for the illiterate sellers by Beitharion also called Demetrianos.
In English machine translation
Sarapammon son of […]on and his son Damas also called Sarapammon, his mother being Apollonous, both from the city of Oxyrhynchus, to Kat[…]nis (?) son of D[…] also called Dionysios, his mother being Arsinoe, […] from the same city, greetings. We acknowledge that we have sold to you from now for all time the courtyard belonging to both of us, of the house which we own in the Chenoboskoi quarter, […] north of your house; the neighbours of which courtyard are: to the south the house of […] family, to the north our house, to the east an open plot, to the west a street (?); and that we have received from you here, from hand to hand in full, the 200 drachmas of imperial silver coin agreed upon as the price of this courtyard. Therefore from now on you, with your descendants and those who succeed you, shall own and have full power over the courtyard sold to you as aforesaid, and shall use and manage it as you choose; and we shall guarantee it to you at all times against all claims with every guarantee, free from the registration of males and from the cultivation of royal and estate land and of every kind, and from any other charge whatsoever. The sale, written in three copies, is valid.
Year 5 of Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Arabicus Adiabenicus, Pachon 14.
We, Sarapammon […] and Damas also called Sarapammon, have sold to Kat[…]nis the aforesaid courtyard, and we have received the 200 drachmas of the price, and we shall guarantee it as aforesaid. I, Beitharion also called Demetrianos, wrote on their behalf since they do not know letters.
The buyer's name is only partly preserved (Kat…nis). The Chenoboskoi ('goose-herds') quarter was a district of Oxyrhynchus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sale of a Courtyard). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.