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Fragmentary receipt in which a seller from Hermopolis acknowledges full payment of the agreed price for land sold to the addressee, located at a place called Pton(…). It refers back to a separate deed of sale and grants the buyer and his heirs full rights.
Most of the wording is restored from standard formulas for such receipts; the number of arouras and the parties' names are lost. The place name Pton(…) survives only in part.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Immobiliarverkaufsquittung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑρμουπολιτῶν τῷ δεῖνι υἱῷ τοῦ τῆς μακαρίας μνήμης[…]χαίρειν. ἔσχον καὶ πεπλήρωμαι παρὰ σοῦ τῆς πρὸς ἀλλήλους συμπεφωνημένης τελείας καὶ ἀξίας τιμῆς τῶν πωλουμένων σοι ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ ἀρουρῶν[…]διακειμένων ἐν τόπῳ λεγομένῳ Πτον μετὰ πάντων κινητῶν τε καὶ ἀκινήτων ἀκολούθως τῇ δυν…
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