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Sale of an eighth share of a house and courtyard TM 26267Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)Ende I (?)

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A contract of sale in which two sellers, [...]egathes and Setabous, sell to Tabous daughter of Stotoetis an inherited one-eighth share of a house and courtyard for 20 drachmas. It was registered at the record office of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, probably in the late 1st century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] [... lines lost ...] [...] [...] [subscriber for the] contracting parties: Stotoetis son of Harpaesis, aged [...], with a scar [...]; for the other woman, her registered guardian. [...]egathes and Setabous, both [...]: We acknowledge that we have sold to Tabous daughter of Stotoetis, with as guardian her full brother (same father and same mother) Horos son of Stotoetis, in accordance with this agreement, from now for all time, the 1/8 share belonging to us from our father in the aforementioned village of a house and courtyard and all appurtenances, whose neighbours are: on the south, the royal street; on the east, the house and courtyard of Theogeiton son of Eirenaios; on the north, the house and courtyard of Taarpagathes [...]; on the west, the house and courtyard of Stotoetis son of Setabous and in part the royal street; and that the contracting parties have received the agreed price in full, by hand from the house, 20 drachmas, and they will guarantee the sale with every guarantee as aforesaid. Stotoetis son of Harpaesis wrote on their behalf because they do not know letters. I, Tabous daughter of Stotoetis, with as guardian my full brother Horos son of Stotoetis, have bought as aforesaid. Her registered guardian wrote on her behalf. Registered through the record office at Soknopaiou Nesos. [verso] Sale by [...]egathes and Setabous to Tabous of 1/8 share of a house and courtyard.

The fraction 1/8 survives only on the verso docket and the title; in the main text it is restored. The opening lines naming date and parties are mostly lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Kauf eines achtel Hausteils). 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 · Ende I (?) · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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