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Sale of a share of grain land on the sandbank at Pathyris TM 81Pathyris7. Okt. 99 v.Chr.

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A notarial contract drawn up before the agoranomos' office at Pathyris, recording that Titos, acting with her elder son Psennesis as guardian, sold her share of undivided grain land on a river sandbank to Petearsemtheus for 1,200 bronze drachmas. It dates to the reign of Ptolemy X Alexander and Berenike, 99 BC.

In English machine translation

In the reign of Ptolemy surnamed Alexander and Berenike his sister, Gods Philometores, year 16, in the time of the priests and priestesses and the kanephoros as they are, month of Thoth 21, at Pathyris, before Hermias the deputy of Paniskos the agoranomos. Titos daughter of Patous, Persian woman, about 60 years old, of medium height, honey-coloured, long-faced, straight-nosed, with as her guardian her own elder son Psennesis son of Harsiesis, Persian of the epigone, about 50 years old, of medium height, dark-skinned, slightly bent (?), bald in front, long-faced, straight-nosed, damaged in the right eye, has sold, from the undivided grain-bearing land belonging to her and her brothers on the sandbank of Pathyris called Pkro of Koetis, the share falling to her, whose neighbours are: on the south the land of Slepis, on the north the land of Panas, on the east the river, on the west the land of Harames, or whoever the neighbours may be on all sides. The buyer was Petearsemtheus son of Panobchounis, about 40 years old, for 1,200 bronze drachmas. Seller and guarantor of everything concerning this sale is Titos the seller, whom Petearsemtheus the buyer has accepted. I, Hermias the deputy of Paniskos, have registered it.

"Persian of the epigone" is a fiscal-legal status designation, not an ethnic one. The "tainia" was a strip of alluvial land along the Nile.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Kaufvertrag über ein Feld (Agoranomisches Protokoll)). 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 · 7. Okt. 99 v.Chr. · Pathyris

βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς Θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν ὄντων καὶ οὐσῶν μηνὸς Θῶθ κα ἐν Παθύρει ἐφʼ Ἑρμίου τοῦ παρὰ Πανίσκου ἀγορανόμου. ἀπέδοτο Τιτῶς Πατοῦτος Περσίνη ὡς ἐτῶν ξ μέση μελίχρω…