Fragment of a petition or application from the Arsinoite nome, early 2nd century AD, concerning a date-palm grove of a fraction of an aroura, a person named Dorion son of Dorion connected by adoption, and a request to be released from something and have it transferred.
In English machine translation
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son of Ka[…]os and […]
of the […] […]
[…] aroura(s) of date-palm grove […]
from 1/2 1/4 1/8 (arouras) in the name of […]
and by adoption […]
of Dorion son of Dorion […]
[…] 4 of the toparchy of the division […]
[…] to be released from […]
to transfer to the […]
both for the present […]
[…] arrangement […]
Only the left side of the second part survives, so the exact request, possibly release from a land obligation and transfer of the plot, is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.