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Application to the property record office concerning sale of a house TM 9372Arsinoites190 - 191

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Part of an application to the keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome concerning the sale of a house, confirming the buyer's full ownership rights and barring the seller, a woman named Taeu[…], from any claim. It is dated to year 31 of Commodus (AD 190-191).

In English machine translation

[…] […] and from now on to possess and own the house sold to her as aforesaid, and to carry off for her own the proceeds from it, and to have power to sell it to others and to manage it and to do with it whatever she chooses; and that Taeu[…] shall not proceed against her (the buyer) nor anyone else on her behalf in any manner whatsoever, the guarantee following upon her forever, the fixed fee for the authorization having been paid. We request. Year 31 of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord […] Wishing this to be reported to the keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome, I request that you, taking note of the […] of the conveyance […] and of the authorization […] […] [… 2 lines lost …] I have signed.

The 'epistalma' was the authorization issued by the property record office (bibliophylakes enkteseon) permitting a registered sale to proceed. The beginning, naming the parties, is lost.

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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bgu.3.825

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 190 - 191 · Arsinoites

[…]…νει …ην καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν κρατεῖν καὶ κυριεύειν τῆς πεπραμένης αὐτῇ ὡς πρόκειται οἰκίας καὶ τὰ ἐξ αὐτῆς περιγεινόμενα ἀποφέρεσθαι εἰς τὸ ἴδιον καὶ ἐξουσίαν ἔχειν ἑτέροις πωλεῖν καὶ διοικεῖν καὶ ἐπιτελεῖν περὶ αὐτῆς ὃ ἐὰν αἱρῆται, τὴν δὲ Ταευ…[…]ν μὴ ἐπιπορεύεσθαι ἐπὶ ταύτην μηδ…