Fragment of a document from the Arsinoite nome of about AD 120, referring to a communication from Eudemos, strategos, with an appended copy. It describes several parties with ages and identifying marks, among them Apias, her son, and the physician Ptolemaios son of Didas, and concerns an inheritance share of a house and courtyard, apparently near the Boubasteion, and a public debt.
In English machine translation
[…] of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian [Augustus] […]
[…] of the (letter?) sent by Eudemos, strategos [of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division] […]
[…] a copy is appended below […]
[…] forty-eight, without distinguishing mark […] to Apias […]
[…] forty-six, without distinguishing mark, and […]
[…] a scar on the left knee, and Apias […] of her son […]
[…] son of […]eides son of Alkimos, about 19 years old […]
[…] husband Ptolemaios son of Didas, physician, about […] years old […]
[…] and Apollonarion and Amonarion and […]
[…] called the Boubasteion of the […]
[…] acknowledging, from Ptolemais […]
[…] according to what the heir received […]
[…] of the share of the same house and [courtyard] […]
[…] of them and those from him […]
[…] of public [debt] […]
[… ? lines lost …]
The descriptions of the parties (age, 'without distinguishing mark', scars) are typical of contracts and registration documents. The exact nature of the document is uncertain because both margins are 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.