A Ptolemaic contract of sale drawn up before the agoranomos Heliodoros at Pathyris, in which Tathotis daughter of Phibis sells 5 cubits of a vacant plot to Taelolous and Petearsemtheus. It includes an abstract, the registration note and a bank receipt from Krokodilopolis for the 10% sales tax.
In English machine translation
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Year 4, Mesore 11. Tathotis sold 5 cubits of solid (ground), of which Taelolous 3, Petearsemtheus 2, total 5, for 5,000 bronze drachmas.
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In the reign of Cleopatra and King Ptolemy, gods Philometores Soteres, year 4, in the time of the priest of King Ptolemy god Philometor Soter, of Alexander and the gods Soteres and the gods Adelphoi and the gods Euergetai and the gods Philopatores and the gods Epiphaneis and the god Eupator and the god Philometor and the god Philopator Neos and the god Euergetes and the gods Philometores Soteres, the sacred foal-bearer (?) of Isis great mother of the gods, the athlophoros of Berenike Euergetis, the kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos, the priestess of Arsinoe Philopator, those in office in Alexandria; and in Ptolemais of the Thebaid, in the time of the priests and priestesses and kanephoros in office in Ptolemais; in the month Pauni, day 11, at Pathyris, before Heliodoros the agoranomos.
Tathotis daughter of Phibis, Persian woman, about 50 years old, of medium height, honey-coloured complexion, long-faced, straight-nosed, with as her guardian her own elder son Patseous son of Pates, Persian of the Epigone, sold from the vacant plot belonging to her in the western
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part of Pathyris 5 cubits of solid ground in the northern part; the neighbours of these: to the south, a vacant plot of the same woman; to the north, the house of Sennesis; to the east, a street; to the west, a vacant plot of the temple; or whoever the neighbours may be. Taelolous daughter of Totoes and Petearsemtheus son of Panobchounis bought it, of which Taelolous 3, Petearsemtheus two cubits, total 5 cubits, for 5,000 bronze drachmas. Guarantor of the sale and warrantor: Tathotis the seller, whom Taelolous and Petearsemtheus the buyers accepted.
I, Ammonios, deputy of Sosos, have registered it.
Year 4, Mesore 30. Paid at the bank in Krokodilopolis, of which Apollonios is in charge, as deposit for the tenth tax on sales, according to the bank order from Paniskos the tax farmer, below which Apollonios the controller signs: Taelolous daughter of Totoes and Petearsemtheus son of Panobchounis, for a vacant plot of 5 cubits at Pathyris, of which Taelolous 3 cubits and Petearsemtheus 2 cubits, which they bought from Tathotis daughter of Phibis for 5,000 bronze drachmas; tax 500.
Apollonios, banker. 600 (?)
The contract is dated Pauni 11 while the abstract and tax receipt date to Mesore; the HGV date corresponds to the tax payment. The final figure after the banker's name is uncertain in meaning.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Kaufvertrag). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.