A fragmentary contract by which several parties, including the heirs of Didymos and men named Pausanias, Ptolemaios and Appianos, exchange shares of houses and related property among themselves. Items include third shares of buildings with their utilities, an eighth share of a surgery, an old collapsed house, and parts of a courtyard, cellar and yard. It dates to the early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[…] Epeiph 8
[…] of Eudaimon, who also by his written instruction […]
[…] […] heirs of Didymos, brother, through me the same […]
[…] have exchanged with one another with full ownership […]
[…] […]os and Apollonas, to you, Pausanias, […]
[…] […] Theon […] of Appianos, a third share […]
[…] […] and utilities, and another third share […]
[…] […] of all, and an eighth share of the surgery (?) […]
[…] of Pausanias, to you, Ptolemaios and Appianos, […]
[…] an old house that has collapsed, and half […]
[…] of the courtyard and cellar and yard and utilities […] of the so-called ground floor, so that from now on […]
[…] have the right to use and manage and administer […]
[…] to no one else on its behalf, entirely […]
[…] […] for every guarantee and […]
[…] the exchange, written in three copies, so that Pausanias […]
[…] [and concerning] these things having been done rightly and properly, having been asked the formal question, [we acknowledged] […]
[…] through me, Appianos, I have made the exchange […]
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The left part of every line is lost, so the exact allocation of shares among the parties is unclear. The word iatreion normally means a doctor's surgery or clinic.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Permuta di immobili). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.