Fragments of a sale contract for a half share of a house with its appurtenances, involving a certain Pasion, a citizen of Antinoopolis, for an agreed price of 600 drachmas. The seller acknowledges full receipt of payment and guarantees not to raise claims. First half of the 3rd century AD, from the Arsinoite or Herakleopolite nome.
In English machine translation
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[…] new (?) […]
[…] from Herakl[…]
[…] auction (?) […]
[…] formerly […] Ptolemai[…]
[…] of the share […] appurtenances […]
[…] of all the […]
[…], north […] east […]
[…] of Pasion, Antinoite, for the agreed price […]
[…] of the half share of a house and the appurtenances […]
[…] 600 drachmas of imperial coinage […]
[…] to have received these in full […]
[…]-on […]
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[…] five (?), a scar above the shoulder […]
[…] nor that she herself will proceed against […]
[…] Aurelius Herakl[…]
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The physical description (a scar above the shoulder) belongs to the identification of a party, and the feminine pronoun suggests a woman was among the sellers. The reading 'auction' for κηρυ[…] is uncertain.
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.