Fragment of a deed of cession with guarantee clause TM 31850Arsinoites oder HerakleopolitesIII

Fragment of a contract of cession (parachoresis), probably for land or property, in which a certain Didymos acknowledges receiving payment in drachmas and guarantees the property against other claims. Neighbours of the property are listed, including Herakleia. It dates to the 3rd century AD, from the Arsinoite or Herakleopolite nome.

In English machine translation

A parachoresis was a formal cession of rights, often over catoecic land; the Macedonian month Gorpiaios appears in the dating.

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.