One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 29055

Fragment of a contract concerning a plot with palm grove at Phrem TM 29055Arsinoites oder HerakleopolitesII - III

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Fragment of a contract, probably a sale or transfer of property, describing an empty plot with a palm grove at the village of Phrem, its neighbours on four sides, and a woman named Hermione. It dates to the 2nd-3rd century AD, from the Arsinoite or Herakleopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] [...] [...] neighbours on the four sides [...] [...] dung (?) [...] and to those in it [...] [...] in the village of Phrem, an empty plot in which a palm grove [...] [...] or whoever may now be the neighbours [...] [...] in the aforementioned villages or toparchies [...] [...] and Hermione [...] [...] and seven (?) [...] [...] I consent [...] [...] [...] [...] one and a half times (?) [...] [...] [...]

The word hemiolia ('one and a half') likely belongs to the standard penalty clause requiring payment of damages plus half again. 'I consent' (eudokō) is a typical formula of a party approving the transaction.

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

cpr.1.145

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II - III · Arsinoites oder Herakleopolites

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