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Sale of a dilapidated house to Phoibammon and his wife Herais TM 39260HermopolisVII

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Fragment of a contract of sale from Hermopolis in the 7th century AD, in which several women, among them Staurophania and Euphemia, sell a whole but dilapidated building to Phoibammon and his wife Herais, daughter of the late Palos. The sellers renounce legal protections available to women and swear by the Holy Trinity.

In English machine translation

[… ? lines lost …] […] … […] … […] … […] … […] […] … signing below, and Phoibammon […] with the consent of the aforementioned Helladios […] consenting to him, Phoibammon, (?) […] to the whole agreement and guarantee […] from the (city) of the Hermopolites. † To the Aurelii Phoibammon […] [and his wife] Herais, daughter of the late Palos, (we) the Aureliai […] and Staurophania and Euphemia, with the consent [of …] renouncing and having renounced every assistance [of the laws …] […] written and just reckoning according to the new [constitution …] the plea of intercessio; and likewise to say, […] of the present written sale, or of a part or a right […] of our own free, voluntary and irrevocable will […] and swearing by the holy and consubstantial [Trinity, we have sold to Phoibammon and his] wife Herais and have conveyed […] and with every authority and perpetual possession and […] from now for all time the building belonging [to us …] entire, in a dilapidated state […] … […] […] … […] [… ? lines lost …]

The intercessio clause refers to the Senatus consultum Velleianum, which protected women who stood surety for others; women parties often formally renounced it. The new constitution (nearà diataxis) cited is an imperial Novel.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VII · Hermopolis

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