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Fragment of an application to the property record office for a notation TM 25586unbekanntI - IV

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Fragment of an application to the keepers of the property record office, asking that a notation be entered in the records in line with a copy of an official document. The applicant promises to show, when registering the property, that it is free of encumbrance.

In English machine translation

[… 2 lines lost …] […] through the keepers of the archives (bibliophylakes). Therefore [I submit this] so that the notation (parathesis) may be made in accordance with the copy of the official document. [For whenever] I make the declaration (apographe) of it, I shall prove that it is free of encumbrance; but if it should appear [to belong to another (?)] […] through the record office (bibliophylakion) […] [… 1 line lost …]

The bibliophylakes kept the property archive (bibliotheke enkteseon); a parathesis was a notation entered against a person's property record.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Divers et incertains). 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 · I - IV

[… 2 lines lost …] […]διὰ τῶν βιβλιοφυλάκων διὸ ἐπιδίδωμι εἰς τὸ τὴν παράθεσιν γενέσθαι ἀκολούθως τῷ ἀντιγράφῳ τοῦ χρηματισμοῦ ὁπόταν γὰρ την ἀπογραφὴν αὐτοῦ ποιῶμαι, ἀποδείξω ὥς ἐστιν καθαρόν εἰ δὲ φανείη ἑτέρῳ προσῆκον διὰ τοῦ βιβλιοφυλακίου [… 1 line lost …]