Fragment of a document listing property being ceded to someone: houses in the metropolis, grain land and vineyard held in named kleroi near Chysis, a village house at Senepta, and a series of debts and deposits owed under notes of hand. It comes from Oxyrhynchus, early 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
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[…] to cede to you the property belonging to her up to the present day, of which the details are as follows:
In the metropolis, in the Heroon quarter, 2 houses with their fixtures.
By a deed drawn up through the record office in Hermopolis the Great in the 25th year of the deified Commodus, Mesore, formerly (the property) of Dionysios son of Kastor,
near the aforementioned Chysis, in the village-scribe district of Pasko,
from the kleros of Hermophilos, of land out of 3 arouras, 1/2 aroura,
and from the kleros of Dionysios, in the southern and eastern portion, 2 arouras,
and from the same kleros, out of […] arouras, 1/2 aroura,
total together 3 arouras of grain land;
near Ibion of Chysis, from the kleros of Hermophilos, 4 arouras of vineyard […]
[…]
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[…] belonging to him in the village of Senepta, in the eastern parts of the village, a house and courtyard and fixtures.
And from the same Ariston, by another duplicate note of hand of his, 3000 silver drachmas and an equal amount of interest.
And from Harmiysis son of Harmiysis, his mother being Heras, from the same city, likewise by a duplicate note of hand of his, 1600 silver drachmas of principal and an equal amount of interest.
And from Sarapion son of Herakleides son of Asklepiades, his mother being Thermouthion, from the same city, likewise by a duplicate note of hand of his for a deposit, 4400 silver drachmas.
And from Ptolemaios also called Antiochos, son of Ptolemaios Deios, former gymnasiarch of the same city and former euthyniarch of the most illustrious city of the Alexandrians, the assigned share of the freight charge (?) deposited […] with Ptolemaios son of Agathos, by a duplicate note of hand of his for a deposit, 1 silver talent, which was also registered publicly and transmitted to the […]
[…] to Diogenes also called Theon and Deios also called Diogenes
[…]
The record calls the text abstracts of contracts; the surviving part reads like an inventory of assets ceded, possibly as a gift or settlement. A kleros was an allotment of land originally granted to a settler; 'duplicate' notes of hand were written in two copies.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abstracts of Contracts). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.