One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31865

Sale of houses with a courtyard and dovecote by Aurelia Artemis alias Kyrilla TM 31865Arsinoites oder HerakleopolitesIII

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Fragment of a sale contract for property including houses, a courtyard and a dovecote, in which Aurelia Artemis also called Kyrilla acknowledges receiving the price, apparently 1,300 drachmas. It dates from the 3rd century AD, from the Arsinoite or Herakleopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[…] […] of Syros […] and on the north […] […] houses and a courtyard and in the […] […] neighbours: on the south, on the one side […] […] agreed between them […] […] Aurelia Artemis also called Kyrilla has received […] […] making (no claim?) from now for all time; and that the agreed terms are valid, so that no longer […] […], and the transaction was completed at their risk […] [having been asked the formal question, they] acknowledged it. The agreement is valid. […] […] of […]tion, and [writing] on her behalf […] […] in which there is a dovecote and […] […] one thousand three hundred drachmas in full […] […] having been asked the formal question, I acknowledged […] […] and however I am styled […]

The text contains the main contract followed by a subscription in the first person, written for the seller by another person. The name Aurelia Artemis is largely restored.

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 · III · Arsinoites oder Herakleopolites

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