Fragmentary contract of cession in which a woman, Eudaimonis, acting with her son Pauseiris as guardian, cedes half an aroura of katoikic allotment land in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome to Apollonios for 1,500 silver drachmas paid through a bank. It dates to the reign of Trajan.
In English machine translation
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[…] with her guardian, her own son Pauseiris […]
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[…] of the division of Herakleides, of a katoikic allotment, arouras […]
[…] neighbours as Apollonios dictated: to the south […]
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[…] Eudaimonis, the (arouras) by way of the registrations of transfer […]
[…] 1,500 silver drachmas through the bank […]
[…] to those deriving title from her, the ceded (arouras) of the allotment […]
[…] free from all public dues […]
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[…] to the treasury an equal amount, and none the less […]
[…] to the aforementioned Apollonios […]
[…] of Eudaimonis and of Apollonios […]
[…] I acknowledge that I have ceded […]
[…] my guardian […]
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[…] of the allotment a half-aroura beginning […]
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[…] by the arrangement of registrations of transfer […]
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[…] all, and of the allotment half an aroura […]
[…] of Ptolemaios, with her guardian, her son […]
[…] as the price of cession 1,500 drachmas […]
[…] I, Pauseiris, have written on behalf of my mother […]
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[…] of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus
Augustus Germanicus
Katoikic land was originally allotted to military settlers; its transfer was recorded by 'katalochismos', an official registration of cession. The 1,500 drachmas is paid as a 'parachoretikon', the price of the cession.
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.