Application from two brothers of Oxyrhynchus, Theon also called Kastor and Dioskourides, to the strategos asking that a house they inherited from their mother be entered in the property registers. Their mother had bought the three-towered house, with courtyard, cellar and two yards, in the Gymnasium Street quarter from the councillor Aurelius Sarapion under the emperor Decius.
In English machine translation
To Aurelius Agathos Daimon, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from the Aurelii Theon also called Kastor and Dioskourides, both sons of Apollophanes, exegetes, councillor of the city of the Oxyrhynchites. By a privately written (chirograph) sale in the [...] year of Messius (Decius), in Choiak, our mother, while still living, bought, and on her death left to us alone, her two sons, as heirs, from Aurelius Sarapion also called Dionysotheon, gymnasiarch, councillor of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, son of Septimius Epimachos, and however he was styled, former euthenearch of the most splendid city of the Alexandrians, in the Gymnasium Street quarter, a three-towered house and a courtyard (atrium), under which is a cellar, and two yards and all their appurtenances, with entrances and exits, with the consent of his full sister Aurelia Kasiane also called Herais, as the chirograph sale contains; and since this has been made public by consent, we have attached to this application the official document sent to the keepers of the property records there, and we submit the application, asking that the keepers of the records be instructed to make the necessary entry, as stated above, in the registers kept by them, for our security. Year 3, Phaophi.
We, the Aurelii Theon also called Kastor and Dioskourides, have submitted this through me, our father Aurelius Apollophanes.
The purchase is dated by Messius (the emperor Decius, AD 249-251), so the application dates to a later reign's third year. 'Demosiosis' was the official registration of a private contract, after which the keepers of property records (bibliophylakes enkteseon) entered the transfer.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for Registration of a House). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.