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
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[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.