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Cession of houses, a mill and a temple office share to sons and grandsons TM 9317Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)ca. 30. März 81

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A fragmentary deed from Soknopaiou Nesos, around 30 March AD 81, in which a parent, acting through a guardian and a writer, cedes shares of houses and courtyards, a mill, a share in the office of lesonis (temple administrator) of Isis Nephersetis, jewellery and household goods to a son and grandsons. It is a family settlement or division of property, ending with a registration note.

In English machine translation

[…] Stotoetis […] […] guardian (kyrios) […] I wrote on behalf of the mother […] […] Tanephremmis(?), son of Stotoetis son of Herieus, I acknowledge that I have conceded after the [… to the sons of] my other son Tesenouphis, deceased, Stotoetis and Horos: to Stotoetis […] a house and courtyard from the southern part and a fourth part of another […] [… a fifteenth(?)] part of a house and courtyard formerly of Patouros; and to Horos and Herieus I concede […] […] part of the eastern side of the house and courtyard conceded to Stotoetis, and […] courtyard, and to the sons of my deceased son Tesenouphis, Stotoetis and [… house and] courtyard; and I concede to my son Stotoetis and Horos, the two, […] [… a Theban mill] with its table, and the […] tenth which we have of the office of lesonis of Isis Nephersetis […] 400 drachmas, on behalf of what they owe on account of the same office of lesonis, silver drachmas […] and a necklace […] and the jewellery of Herieus, to the same sons Stotoetis and Horos and to the daughter […] of all the household furnishings and the debts still owing, according to which […] inheritance(?) […] concerning everything, on condition that the three, Stotoetis, Horos and Herieus, shall make the […] […] 320(?), in the presence of Satabous son of Herieus son of Apynchis and [… because] they do not know letters. [… 2 lines lost …] […] Registered through Theogiton.

The lesonis was an administrator of an Egyptian temple; shares in such offices could be transmitted within families. The text is a duplicate copy of the same deed, and the reading of the grantor's name 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 · ca. 30. März 81 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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