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Sale of an inherited house with courtyard and well TM 31854Herakleopolites1. Hälfte III

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Fragmentary contract of sale registered with the record office (agoranomia) of the Herakleopolite nome, in which a woman sells to Aurelia Arouse[…] property including a house with courtyard, well, atrium, roof dining room and portico, which she had inherited under a will. It dates to the fifth year of an emperor Marcus Aurelius in the first half of the 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

Year five of Imperator Caesar Marcus [Aurelius] […] of the priests who are in Alexandria and of the other […] superintendents of the agoranomia of the Herakleopolite nome above Memphis. [So-and-so acknowledges] […] mother Nemesiaina, from Herakleous polis, […] five (?), with a scar on the forehead, that she has sold to Aurelia Arouse[…] middle (height), honey-coloured, with her guardian Aurelius […] from the property that came down to him from [inheritance] […] [from the] same city, foster-daughter, by right of mother, of the whole […] in accordance […] [by a will of this] kingdom opened on the spot, by which [she left her] heir […] which the aforementioned Artem[…] took possession of […] Artemidoros son of Harpokration also called P[…] from a house and courtyard in which there is a well and an atrium […] […] from which house, with the [part] taken possession of […] on the roof a dining room and a portico […] and a well and all the other appurtenances […] […]tios also called Herakleides from […] all the [aforementioned] things from the ground [to all height] […] [neighbours] […] [to the south] a public lane, to the north a wall […] […]

The emperor's full name is lost, so the regnal year cannot be fixed precisely. The agoranomia was the public notary office where contracts were drawn up and registered.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 1. Hälfte III · Herakleopolites

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