Copy of a contract of sale in which Aurelius Heras sells to his full brother Aurelius Herakles and sister Kopria alias Kyrilla a two-thirds share of a 2 1/2-aroura vineyard near a village in the Themistes division of the Arsinoite nome. It was drawn up at Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) on 28 August 257.
In English machine translation
Copy of a handwritten contract […]. Year 4 of the Emperors and Caesars Publius Licinius Valerianus and Publius Licinius Valerianus Gallienus, Germanici Maximi, Pii, Felices, and of Publius Licinius Cornelius Valerianus, the most illustrious Caesar, Augusti, month Kaisareios (Mesore), 5th intercalary day, at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome.
Aurelius Heras, son of Heras, grandson of Herakleides, from the quarter […], with a body extending (?) […], acknowledges to his full brother and sister (same father and same mother) […] Aurelius Herakles, about 30 years old, and Kopria also called Kyrilla, about […] years old, […] acting without a guardian by the right of children, that he, the acknowledging party Heras, has sold the property belonging to him and to Kopria also called Kyrilla jointly in equal shares, according to this present conveyance […] and the property record office […] before the agoranomos (?) […] of the toparchy, a two-thirds share of the land belonging to them near the village of […]amy in the division of Themistes: vineyard from the allotment of Menelaos, 2 1/2 arouras in two parcels, those in the first parcel of the […] parcel(s) of 2 1/2 arouras, the remaining third share being kept in common with the aforementioned Heras,
together with the existing equipment of the same arouras, watering channels, drainage outlets, entrances and exits, and all uses and rights according to the ancient and present custom; the neighbours of which, as the conveyance to Heras contains, are: on the south and west […] vineyard; on the north a reed-bed and a road; on the east […] of Aurelius […]
[…] of Herakleios (?) and Kopria also called Kyrilla
[…] all in full […]
[… ? lines lost …]
Kopria acts without a guardian under the 'right of children' (ius liberorum), granted to women with three or more children. The village name is lost except for its ending.
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.