Fragment of a contract, probably a sale or cession of property, drawn up in the Herakleopolite nome under Elagabalus (AD 218-222). A woman acting with her husband as guardian makes an acknowledgement to Aurelius Alexandros, referring to an earlier public instrument registered through the agoranomeion and listing the neighbours of the property.
In English machine translation
[…] [of Imperator Caesar Marcus] Aurelius Anto[ninus Pius Felix Augustus] […]
[…] [and the other] common [matters] written [in the month] […]
[…] [of the] Herakleopolite nome above Memphis; [acknowledges] […]
[…] [from] the village of Assya, resid[ing] […]
[…] [with as guardian] her own husband Are[…]
[…] about 50 years old […]
[…] to Aurelius Alexandros […]
[…] [according to a public] instrument execu[ted] [in the] […] [year] […]
[…] [through the overseers] of the agoranomeion in the city […]
[…] having registered […]
[…] from the Asiarch […]
[…] everything in it with the […]
[…] neighbours, as they themselves declared […]
[…] east […]
[…] wife, to her, to one an[other] […]
[… ? lines lost …]
The emperor named Marcus Aurelius Antoninus here is Elagabalus. The Asiarch was a high provincial dignitary of Asia, here probably mentioned as a previous owner or neighbour.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.