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Petition to the strategos with copy of a land sale registered with the archidikastes TM 23556Hermopolites162 - 163 (?)

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A petition to Horigenes, strategos of the Hermopolite nome, from Anoubiaina also called Teuoris, attaching a copy of documents registered through the archidikastes' office in Alexandria. The copied contract is a sale by Herminos son of Horion of 2 1/4 arouras of land, including Messalinian plots, originally dated under Antoninus Pius.

In English machine translation

To Horigenes, strategos of the Hermopolite nome, from Anoubiaina also called Teuoris, daughter of Apollonios […] […] of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and […] […] I, Harpokration, have signed. To Artemidoros, priest, archidikastes and in charge of the supervision of the chrematistai and the other courts, through […] Gaianos, administering the office of the archidikastes […] […] of the records; a copy is appended below […] […] greetings. I acknowledge that I have sold to you from […] […] the Messalinian plots and others to the west […] […] 2 1/4 arouras from […] […] 1/4 1/8, whose neighbours are on the south […] […] and the agreed price […] […] and from the coming 3rd year of Antoninus […] previous times up to the present 2nd year and the 2nd year itself, all public taxes and supplementary levies are to be my responsibility as seller, the guarantee following me in every respect for full warranty, and that I shall not proceed against you nor shall others on my behalf […] and if I proceed or fail to guarantee, the action shall be invalid and I, or whoever proceeds on my behalf, shall pay in addition to you the buyer or your successors the damages and expenses and as a penalty, like a private debt, double the price, and to the treasury an equal amount, and the sale shall nonetheless be valid. Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, […] 5. I, Herminos son of Horion, the aforementioned, have sold […] and received the price […] […] Archias son of Antinoos […] of the past 2nd year of Antoninus and Verus the lords Augusti […] […] his […] […] Year 3 […]

Much of the warranty clause is restored from standard formulas. Such petitions typically requested that a private contract, published through the archidikastes, be served or made public locally.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Istanza allo stratego). 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 · 162 - 163 (?) · Hermopolites

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