A fragmentary application to register a fourth share of inherited or purchased property that was under a katoche (official attachment) in favour of the state treasury, which held prior right of execution. It ends with a docket by the scribe Ptolemaios confirming entry of the registration, dated 4 October 103 AD, probably in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[…] […]ion
[…] the present […] to the
[…] katoche (attachment) […] the name of the […] to be […]
[…] registration […] of the father, upon the sold
[…] to me a fourth part of the aforesaid property […] our account, the right of first execution belonging
[to the treasury and] […] if it is sold, the price going to the
[treasury] […] treasury, not to require my release
[…] of the property […] to the same
[…] a public release being brought to us
[…] the registration of the fourth part in accordance
[…]
[In the] official record: I, Ptolemaios, scribe, have entered
[the registration and the] katoche, the right of first execution belonging to the treasury, and
[if it is sold] […] and the price goes to the treasury, they will not require
[release of the] […]ilon. Year 7 of Imperator Caesar Nerva
[Traianus Augustus Germa]nicus Dacicus, Phaophi 6.
Katoche is a lien or attachment placing property under restraint for state claims; protopraxia is the treasury's right to be paid first. The provenance is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Record of Katoche). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.