End of a contract with guarantee and penalty clauses TM 31883Arsinoites oder Herakleopolites1. Hälfte III

The end of a Greek contract, probably a sale or cession, preserving only standard closing clauses: a guarantee of title against all claimants, a penalty for breach, a note that the transaction was registered at the parties' risk with the state's priority claim, and the formal question and acknowledgment. It dates to the first half of the 3rd century AD, from the Arsinoite or Herakleopolite nome.

In English machine translation

Most of the surviving wording is restored from standard formulae, so the type of transaction and the parties are unknown. 'Protopraxia' is the state's right to be paid first before other creditors.

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.