Fragment of a document from the Arsinoite nome concerning property held by members of a family, children of Harphaesis and Phanomgeus. It refers to a house, courtyard and palm grove on private land, a sale made in good faith, a man named Sarapion from Karanis, the 17th year of the deified Hadrian, and a will.
In English machine translation
[…] of the property […] alienation […]
[…] of which we have possession from […]
[…] them, that the sale which took place was made in good faith by […]
[…] (son?) of Harphaesis, and of their mother Phanomgeus […]
[…] of a house and courtyard and palm grove on privately owned land […]
[…] of Sarapion from Karanis in the 17th year of the god Hadrian […]
[…] declared (?) in a will that he wished the things done according to […]
[…]ios and Asklas and Harphaesis, the three (sons) of Harphaesis […]
[…]mouthi […] wife of Pasoxis […]
[…]sios according to the […] which took place […]
The exact nature of the document is uncertain; it may be a declaration or petition about the legitimacy of a property transfer. Hadrian is called 'the god', so the text was written after his death in AD 138.
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.