Application for registration (parathesis) of a half share of property at Aphroditopolis TM 29448Aphroditopolis (Arsinoites)frühes II

Fragment of an application to the property record office for a parathesis, a provisional registration of a claim or transaction concerning a half share of jointly owned, undivided property in the village of Aphroditopolis, valued at 400 silver drachmas. The applicant declares the property unencumbered and accepts that the registration will not stand in the way of any prior rights. Early 2nd century AD, Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

Parathesis was a provisional entry lodged with the property record office (bibliophylakion), protecting a claim pending a transaction; it has no exact English equivalent. The phrase about the document 'concerning seals' is difficult and its sense uncertain.

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