Declaration of Property
Return addressed by the soldier Satyros to the keepers of the public library, declaring the purchase of a house in Stratonos kome from a woman, Taarpakysis
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41443
Soldier's registration of a house purchased in Stratonos Kome TM 41443unknown place (perhaps Karanis), Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt212 A.D.
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A declaration to the keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome by a soldier of the First Cohort of Apameni, registering his purchase that day of a new single-storey house and walled courtyard in the village of Straton from a woman named Taarpakysis, acting with a guardian. It dates to AD 212.
In English machine translation
[…] Mecheir […]
[…] former high priest, and Sere[…], former […], councillor, keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome,
from Tyros (?), son of Serenos, soldier of the First Cohort of Apameni, century of Taurinus. I register through you
what I bought on the present day
from Taarpakysis, daughter of Apollonios
son of Sarapion, formerly registered as from the village of Karanis,
but after her marriage to
her former husband Ammonios, ex-kosmetes, (registered) from the quarter of Phremi, as registered through the former keepers of the records,
with her guardian, who was appointed through Arrius Gemellus, priest and exegetes, Aphrodi[…]
[…]pos son of Pnepheros, from the village of Straton, in the same village
of Straton: the new single-storey house
[and] courtyard formerly belonging to An[…]
walled around […]
[…]
[… 9 lines lost …]
The soldier's name is read as Tyros in the edition but given as Satyros in the catalogue description. The keepers of property records (bibliophylakes enkteseon) were the officials of the land and property archive.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration of Property). 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.mich.9.542
[…]Μεχὶρ[…] […]…[…]ι ἀρχιερατεύσαντι καὶ Σερη[…] γενομένῳ[…] βουλευτῇ βιβλιοφύλαξι ἐνκτήσεων Ἀρσινοίτου παρὰ Τύρου Σερήνου στρατιώτου σπείρης πρώτης Ἀπαμηνῶν ἑκατοντάρχίας Ταυρίνου. ἀπογράφομαι διὰ ὑμῶν ἣν ἠγόρασα τῇ ἐνεστώσῃ ἡμέρᾳ παρὰ Τααρπακύσεως Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ Σαραπίωνος πρότ…