A contract recorded at the record office of Neilou Polis and Soknopaiou Nesos in which Soteria, daughter of Eirenaios, acting with a guardian, cedes 1 aroura of katoikic land in four parcels to a woman whose name begins Taph-. It includes the boundaries, a receipt of the price, guarantees against taxes and claims, and a penalty clause, from the Arsinoite nome in the 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
[…] through the record office of the village of Neilou Polis and Soknopaiou Nesos.
[…] Soteria, daughter of Eirenaios son of Apollonios, her mother being […], acknowledges […]
[aged about …], [with a scar …] … eye […], with her guardian … […]
[…] …, aged about 20, without distinguishing marks, with her own guardian […]
[…] that the acknowledging party Soteria has ceded to Taph[…]
[…] for transfer of registration from the present day for all time the 1 aroura belonging to her near
[the village of …] of the […] division, of a katoikic allotment, in four parcels […]
[…] of the aforementioned, and that [Soteria] has carried out [for Taph…] […]
[…] the arrangement of the cession as is proper […]
[…] with watering places and drainage outlets
[…] and all [other rights], whose neighbours, as they declared by agreement, are […]
[…] land, after which a field road; west […]
[…] allotment of …itros, and that [Soteria] has received
[from Taph…] […] in full immediately […]
[…] and that the acknowledging party who has sold, [Soteria], [shall guarantee] […]
[to Taph…] […] the 1 aroura ceded to her with every guarantee, which she shall also [keep untouched and] […]
[…] [and unmortgaged] and free from public taxes […]
[…] [and] all [assessments], surcharges and old accounts […]
[…] [from former times] up to the present year and the [present year] itself […]
[…] [and from private claims] and every seizure for all time […]
[…] [But if] the acknowledging party Soteria transgresses any of these [or fails to guarantee] […]
[…] [let her pay] double the capital sum of the cession and the charges [and expenses] […]
[Signatory for the …] […] her guardian who signs for her, and the acknowledging party herself writing slowly […]
Katoikic land was originally allotted to military settlers; by Roman times it was transferred by a formal 'cession' (parachoresis), which functioned as a sale. The name of the buyer survives only as Taph[…].
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Verkauf von Katökenland). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.