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Conveyance of a third share of a two-towered house at Seryphis TM 21981Oxyrhynchosca. 261

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Opening of a deed from Oxyrhynchus, about AD 261, in which the councillor and market official Aurelius Geminos alias Silvanus formally registers the conveyance to Aurelius Apion alias Ptollion of a property his three sons had bought through him. The property is a one-third share of a two-towered house, with its appurtenances, in the village of Seryphis.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Geminos also called Silvanus, son of Demetrios, agoranomos, councillor of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, to Aurelius Apion also called Ptollion, kosmetes, councillor of the same city, son of Ptollion […], former kosmetes of the same city, greetings. I acknowledge that I have conveyed to you from now for all time what my sons under my authority, Aurelii Demetrios, whose mother is Isidora also called Dionysia, one of the sacred victors from the ephebate, and Heliodoros and Silvanus, both of whose mother is Apia also called Tapa[…], daughter of Xois, all three from the same city, have purchased from you through me: in the village of Seryphis, in the north-eastern parts of the village, a third share of a house with two towers and of the appurtenances […] […]

The verb katagraphein normally denotes registration or conveyance of property to a buyer. Here the sons appear as buyers from Apion, which makes the direction of the transfer puzzling as preserved. The 'two-towered house' (oikia dipyrgiaia) is a common type of rural house in Egypt.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Cession of House - property). 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 · ca. 261 · Oxyrhynchos

Αὐρήλιος Γεμῖνος ὁ καὶ Σιλβανὸς Δημητρίου ἀγορανόμος βουλευτὴς τῆς Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀπίωνι τῷ καὶ Πτολλίωνι κοσμητῇ βουλευτῇ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως υἱῷ Πτολλίωνος …ιξι[…]τος κοσμητεύσαντος τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ καταγεγραφέναι σοι ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν εἰς τὸν ἀεὶ χρόνον ὃ …