One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31869

Fragment of a contract of cession of land TM 31869Arsinoites oder Herakleopolites1. Hälfte III

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A small fragment of a contract, probably a sale or cession of land, declaring the property free from ousiac and royal land claims and from other cessions, valid for all time. A man named Alexandros, also called [...], is mentioned. It dates to the first half of the 3rd century AD, from the Arsinoite or Herakleopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] [...] hundred; he further acknowledges [...] [...] of Alexandros also called [...] [...] free from ousiac [and royal land and from] [other] cessions [or other arrangements] [from] now for [all time] [...] [...]

Ousiac land was land of the former imperial estates (ousiai); the guarantee clause is largely restored from standard formulas.

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.

cpr.1.125

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

[… ? lines lost …] […]ακόσιαι προσομολογεῖ[…] […] Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ καὶ …ερ…[…] καθαρᾶς ἀπό τε οὐσιακῆς καὶ βασιλικῆς γῆς καὶ ἀπʼ ἄλλων παραχωρήσεων ἢ ἑτέρων οἰκονομιῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν ἐπὶ τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον [… ? lines lost …]