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Renunciation of claim to shares of a vineyard and grain land at Pathyris TM 72Pathyris11. Dez. 103 v.Chr.

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A deed of renunciation drawn up before the agoranomos office at Pathyris, in which Sennesis, with her guardian, gives up any claim to shares of a vineyard and grain land she had earlier sold to Petearsemtheus son of Panobchounis. It includes a penalty clause against future claims and dates to December 103 BC.

In English machine translation

[recto] Year 15, which is also year 12, Hathyr 25, at Pathyris, before Hermias, the deputy of Paniskos, agoranomos. Sennesis daughter of Psenthotes, Persian woman, aged about 25, of less than middle height, honey-coloured, ugly-faced (?), with her guardian, her relative Thotsytes son of Erienoupis, aged about 40, of middle height, reddish, renounces all claim to the quarter share of a planted vineyard, with the trees growing in it, and the fifth share of grain-bearing land adjoining on the north and west of the vineyard, in the riverbank land of Pathyris, which Petearsemtheus son of Panobchounis bought from her, belonging undivided to him and his brothers, and to the sale deed registered at the record office in Pathyris in year 13, which is also year 1, Mesore 23; of which the neighbours are: on the south, the vineyard of Tathotis; on the north, the land of Patous son of Horos and his brothers; on the east, the enclosure wall of the vineyards; on the west, a dyke; for […] 5,500 (?) talents of bronze. And Sennesis shall not proceed, nor anyone else on her behalf, against Petearsemtheus nor anyone else on his behalf, concerning any of the things written above. Otherwise, the proceeding of the one who proceeds shall be invalid, and the one who proceeds shall pay in addition a fine of 10 talents forthwith, and to the sovereigns 200 drachmas of coined silver as sacred money, and the agreements shall nonetheless remain valid. I, Hermias, deputy of Paniskos, have registered it. [verso] Year 15, which is also year 12, Hathyr 25. Sennesis renounces claim in favour of Petearsemtheus.

The double regnal year (15 = 12) reflects the joint reign of Cleopatra III and Ptolemy X Alexander. The sum of the price is partly lost; the figure read as 5,500 talents is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 11. Dez. 103 v.Chr. · Pathyris

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