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Fragment of a sale of real property with guarantee clauses TM 34794Antinoopolis (?)V - VI

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A fragment from the middle of a contract for the sale of real property, containing the clauses transferring ownership to the buyers and the sellers' guarantee against third-party claims, with a penalty of double the price. It dates to the 5th or 6th century AD and may come from Antinoopolis.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] [so that from now on you may hold, own and be masters of the] aforementioned properties [sold to you] by us [as stated above], whose possession and ownership we have handed over to you from this moment, and so that those who will receive them in turn from you may own, use, manage, administer and deal with them in whatever way they choose without hindrance; we the sellers and our successors guaranteeing to you the buyers and to your successors with every guarantee against anyone who will proceed against or lay claim to them, or else to pay you double the [aforementioned] price, and the same amount to the public treasury, and all other expenses double, and [nonetheless] this sale remains valid and secure for you, as indeed it is, […] [… lines lost …]

Only standard formulaic clauses survive; the parties, property and price are lost. The provenance is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Immobilienkaufvertrag). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.koeln.4.193

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · V - VI · Antinoopolis (?)

[… ? lines lost …] εἰς τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν ὑμᾶς κρατεῖν καὶ κυριεύειν καὶ δεσποτεύειν τῶν καθὼς πρόκειται πεπραμένων ὑμῖν ὑφʼ ἡμῶν προδηλωθέντων πραγμάτων, ὧν τὴν νομὴν καὶ τὴν δεσποτείαν ἐντεῦθεν ὑμῖν παραδεδώκαμεν, καὶ τοὺς παρʼ ὑμῶν μεταπαραλημψομένους δεσπόζοντας χρωμένους καὶ οἰκ…