One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31877

Fragment of a sale of land with acknowledgement of payment by Apollonia TM 31877Arsinoites oder Herakleopolites1. Hälfte III

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Fragment of a contract, apparently a sale of land measured in arouras, with boundaries given and a price agreed in imperial coinage. A woman named Apollonia acknowledges receipt of payment, and a person also called Sarapion and a deceased woman are mentioned. It dates to the first half of the 3rd century AD, from the Arsinoite or Herakleopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] sell(?) [...] [...] arouras [...] [...] of the east [...] [...] the agreed [...] of imperial coinage [...] [...] they acknowledge [...] Apollonia (acknowledges) to have received [...] [from the] house(?), from which [...] [...] also called Sarapion [...] deceased [...] [...] of the city [...] [...] from the [...] [...] [...]

The phrase rendered 'from the house' (ex oikou) usually means paid in cash directly from the buyer's own funds. The deceased woman is probably a former owner of the property.

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.1.134

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

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