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Sale of inherited land at Phanesis to the brothers Ioannes and Apollos TM 869388Arsinoiton Polis19. Okt. 597

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A sale contract written at Arsinoiton Polis in AD 597, in which a man, son of Phib, from the village of Phanesis sells inherited farmland in the kleros called Naleote to the brothers Aurelius Ioannes and Aurelius Apollos of the same village. The seller acknowledges payment; the price and the end of the document are lost.

In English machine translation

[† In the name of the Lord and Master Je]sus Christ, our God and Saviour, [in the reign of our most divine and most pi]ous master Flavius Mauricius Ti[berius, the eternal Augus]tus and Imperator, year 16, Phaophi 22, 1st indiction, in Ar(sinoiton Polis). […] [so]n of Phib, his mother being T…eris, from the village of Phanesis [of the Arsinoite nome], to the Aurelii Ioannes and Apollos, full [brothers, sons] of […]…rios, from the same village, greeting. I acknowledge that I have willingly [sold to you] with the fullest right of ownership and every power, from now […] for all time, what belongs to me and has come down […] [from] my paternal inheritance, in the plain of our [village] […] [at the place] of the kleros called Naleote, of however many arouras … […]… with all its rights; neighbours: to the south […]… of the storehouse […]… to the east, the kleros […]… […]… and I have been paid in full by [you] […] [as] was agreed between us […]… seven […] from now […] to possess [… ? lines lost …]

A kleros was originally a parcel of allotted land and survived as a name for land tracts in the Fayum. The size of the plot and the price are lost in the gaps.

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 Land). 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

† ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου Φλαυίου Μαυρικίου Τιβερίου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους ιϛ Φαωφι κβ α ἰνδικτίωνος ἐν Ἀρσινοιτῶν πόλει. […] υἱὸς Φῖβ, μητρὸς Τ…ερίδος…