A declaration to the keepers of the property records of the Hermopolite nome in which Thatres, with her husband as guardian, reports the sale of vacant building plots at the village of Magdola Mire to the minor Hermaios, acting through his kinsman Sarapion, for 600 silver drachmas. She asks that the city scribe be instructed to register the transaction and swears by Trajan's fortune that the plots are unencumbered. It was written at Hermopolis in August 106.
In English machine translation
To the keepers of the property records of the Hermopolite nome,
from Thatres daughter of Inaroys, […] mother Che[…]pibekis daughter of Aphynchis, of Hermopolis, registered in the quarter of the East Fort, with my guardian, my husband Pemous son of Phanes. I sell to Hermaios son of Achilleus son of Apollonios also called Harpaesion, mother Sarapias daughter of Kyon, of Hermopolis, registered in the quarter of the East City, a minor, with his guardian, his kinsman Sarapion son of Achilleus, from what I hold in the register of property in the village of Magdola Mire of the Lower Peri Polin toparchy, in the southeastern parts, formerly belonging to Penaus son of Menches, a third share of a vacant plot together with the entrance and exit, and formerly belonging to Didymos son of Dionysios, a vacant plot, of whatever measurement in cubits they may be, the total of which was reckoned from a remeasurement or […] three and […] for 600 silver drachmas […] together. I ask that you instruct the scribe of the city to transact the business with me, and I swear by the fortune of the Emperor Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus that the aforesaid plots belong to me free from every encumbrance up to now. If I keep my oath, may it be well with me; if I swear falsely, the opposite. Year 9 of the Emperor Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, Mesore 21.
I, Thatres, […] with my guardian, my husband Pemous son of Phanes, have submitted this.
[…] of the […] untouched (?).
The bibliophylakes enkteseon kept the official register of private property, and sales had to be notified to them so that ownership could be transferred in their records. The lines giving the price and the plots' measurements are badly damaged.
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.