Sale of property with guarantee subscriptions TM 22318Herakleopolitesca. 200

Fragment of a sale contract from the Herakleopolite nome, around AD 200, in which a property with neighbouring plots described on each side is sold to a man named Aurelius for 40 silver drachmas. It ends with guarantee subscriptions by the seller and by a second party, Aurelius Horigenes, each written by a literate man from Herakleopolis because the signers could not write.

In English machine translation

The opening word refers to protopraxia, the right of a creditor or the state to be paid first by execution on property, here probably part of the warranty clause. The second subscriber, Horigenes, seems to act as co-seller or guarantor.

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.