Fragment of a contract concerning a jointly owned share TM 26272Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)I

Fragment of a contract from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, dating to the 1st century AD. It preserves parts of personal descriptions of the parties (a scar on the forehead, a mark on the right arm) and mentions a common share, perhaps of a house, transferred from the present time.

In English machine translation

The identification of the shared property as part of a house is only a conjecture. The physical descriptions with scars are typical identifying details of parties in contracts from Roman Egypt.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Vertragsfragment über einen gemeinsamen Besitz (Hausanteil?)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.