Sale of Part of a House
Subscriptions to a contract by which Taorseus, daughter of Orsenouphis, sells half of a house in Tebtynis to Psosneus, son of Andronikos
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Subscriptions to the sale of half a house at Tebtynis TM 25189Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIst century A.D.
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Greek subscriptions to a sale contract drawn up in Egyptian (Demotic) form, in which Taorseus, with her full brother Orseus as guardian, sells her half share of an undivided two-storey paternal house in Tebtynis to Psosneus son of Andronikos. She acknowledges receiving the price and guarantees the sale; a scribe signs for the illiterate parties and the buyer confirms.
In English machine translation
I, Taorseus daughter of Orsenouphis, my mother being Thaesis, with as guardian my brother by the same father and the same mother, Orseus, acknowledge that I have sold according to the Egyptian contracts to Psosneus son of Andronikos, his mother being Thaesis, the half share belonging to me of a paternal two-storey house, held in common and undivided, and all its appurtenances, in Tebtynis, of which the neighbours of the whole house are: on the south […]
the house of […] son of Herodes and his brothers; on the north and east, plots of the same sons […] of […]ouorios and his brother; on the west, the royal street. And I have received from Psosneus the agreed price in full, from hand to hand out of the house,
and I will guarantee the sale with every guarantee always for all time, as aforesaid. Written on their behalf
by Eutychos son of Eutychos, because they do not know letters. I, Psosneus son of Andronikos: the sale has been made to me as aforesaid.
The main contract was written "according to Egyptian contracts", i.e. in Demotic; this Greek text gives only the parties' acknowledgments. The buyer's name is spelled both Psosneus and Psonseous.
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 Part 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.
p.mich.5.296
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