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Sale of part of a house and courtyard to Aurelia Herakleia TM 31874Herakleopolites1. Hälfte III

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Fragment of a sale contract from the Herakleopolite nome in which Isidoros son of Bauthlas sells property, apparently part of a house with a courtyard, to Aurelia Herakleia, a widow of Antinoopolis, for 3,000 silver drachmas. It includes the property's boundaries and the seller's guarantee against other claims.

In English machine translation

[...] [of the] public [documents] written [...] in the month of Loios, Pauni the fifth (?) [...] [of the Herakleo]polite nome. Isidoros son of Bauthlas son of [...] acknowledges, [being regis]tered in the former amphodarchy of Artemidoros [...], that he has sold to Aurelia Herakleia, widow, of Antinoopolis, [with her guardian ...] [... son of Apollo]nios son of Serenos, from Herakleopolis [...] of the courtyard, as they have declared, [... on the] south [...] up to the whole height of the entire house and every [...] [...] of Apollonios; on the north a pastophorion [...] and of Isidoros of Antinoopolis; at the agreed price [...] of silver of imperial coinage, three thousand drachmas [...] [...] Herakleia, all in full and directly [from hand to hand out of the house, and he will deliver it free of other] sales or other transactions and from [anyone who will lay claim or make any claim from now] [for] all time, guaranteeing it with every guarantee [...] [...] nonetheless [...] [...]

The double month dating (Macedonian Loios with Egyptian Pauni) is a formal feature of notarial contracts. A pastophorion was a building or chamber belonging to temple pastophoroi (shrine-bearers).

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.1.131

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

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