Sale of House Property
Subscription to a contract by which Thasos, daughter of Konnos, sells a dining room and other house property to Paches, son of Peteeus
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 25188
Sale of a dining room and share of a house at Tebtynis TM 25188Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIst century A.D.
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Subscription to a sale contract in which Thasos daughter of Konnos, acting with her husband Papnebtynis as guardian, sells to Paches son of Peteeus an inherited dining room over the gateway of her family house, with its storeroom and grain pit and her share of the gateway, pillar and roof. The property lies in Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome, and the document dates to the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
I, Thasos daughter of Konnos, with my guardian, my own husband Papnebtynis son of Petesis, acknowledge that I have sold by this present agreement, from the present day for all time, to Paches son of Peteeus, the ancestral three-couch room belonging to me over the gateway, in which there is a storeroom and a grain pit, {over the gateway} of the ancestral house belonging to me, and the share falling to me of the gateway and pillar and roof and all appurtenances, in Tebtynis; of which the neighbours of the whole house are: on the south a royal street, on the north plots of Thasis and her siblings, on the west the house of Petsiris son of […] and in part a courtyard of Thasis and her siblings, and on the east formerly […] a courtyard […] [and I have received]
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A "three-couch room" (triklinos) is a dining room sized for three couches. The scribe mistakenly repeated the phrase "over the gateway"; the end of the text, which likely recorded receipt of the price, is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sale of House Property). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.mich.5.295
Θασῶς Κοννῶτος μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ ἑαυτῆς ἀνδρὸς Παπνεβτύνεως τοῦ Πετήσιος ὁμολογῶ πεπρακέναι κατὰ τήνδε τὴν ὁμολογίαν ταύτην ἀπὸ τῆς ἐνεστώσης ἡμέρας ἐπὶ τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον Παχῆτι Πετεεῦτος τὸν ὑπάρχοντά μοι πατρικὸν οἶκον τρίκλινον ἐπὶ τοῦ πυλῶνος, ἐν ᾧ ταμιεῖον καὶ σιρὸς τῆς ὑπαρχο…