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Application for registration of land and house shares acquired from a mother at Karanis TM 9568Karanis (Arsinoites)180 - 192

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Application to the property record office (the keepers of the archive of acquisitions) by a man of Karanis asking that his acquisition be registered: a half share of a katoikic land allotment of 4 arouras and a quarter share of a house and courtyard obtained from his mother. It dates from the reign of Commodus (AD 180-192), on Mesore 30.

In English machine translation

[…] […] Mesore 30 […] To […] Alexander […]on, former exegetes, […] [from] […]on son of Ptolemaios son of Is[…], [from the] village of Karanis. I have acquired [a half share] undivided, by a public [instrument] executed through the [record office] here on the present day, in [the aforesaid village of] Karanis, of a cleruchic (katoikic) allotment […] from 4 arouras, [and in the] same village a fourth share [of a house and] courtyard, [from] my mother […] daughter (?) of Ouetas, from the same [village] […] with [her] guardian […] and […]. [Therefore I submit (this) so that the registration] be made [in accordance with the copy] of the instrument [that I have attached]; for whenever I make the [declaration], I will prove that it belongs […]; and if it should appear to belong to another [or to have been previously] encumbered, this registration shall be no impediment. Sarapiodoros, scribe. [Year …] of Aurelius Commodus Caesar the lord, Mesore 30.

A parathesis was a provisional entry in the property archive (bibliotheke enkteseon) recording an acquisition before the formal declaration. The addressees' names and the exact regnal year are lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gesuch um Vormerkung im Grundbuch). 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 · 180 - 192 · Karanis (Arsinoites)

[…]…… […]Μεσορὴ λ […] […] Ἀλεξάνδρῳ […]…ονι ἐξηγητεύσαντι […]…… παρὰ[…]ωνος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Ἰσ[…]ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος. ἔσχον ἥμισυ μέρος ἀδιαίρετον κατὰ δημόσιον χρηματισμὸν τελειωθέντα διὰ τοῦ ἐνθάδε γραφείου τῇ ἐνεστώσῃ ἡμέρᾳ περὶ τὴν προκειμένην κώμην Καρανίδα κλήρου κατοικικοῦ[…