Fragmentary contract for the sale of a quarter share of a house, held undivided, in the Phanesios quarter of Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) in the Fayum, with payment through the bank of Didymos. The seller's party includes Ammonios and Alexandros son of Dioskoros, and the buyer is Nikarion daughter of Ammonios, acting with her brother as guardian; dated 4 January 145 AD.
In English machine translation
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[…] […]
[in the] city, market(?) […] from […]
[…] Ammon[…] the fourth part […]
[…] of all, in the quarter of Phanesios […]
with […] on the south a public street, on the north other […]
to be arranged as the earlier titles of ownership concerning them contain, [and that he has received the price]
[mutually] agreed for what has been sold, as stated above, [… drachmas of silver]
[…] one hundred, through the bank of Didymos in Phanesios, and [he will] guarantee [to her]
and to those acting for her the fourth part of the [house] that has been sold […]
untouched, unmortgaged, not pledged for any loan, and free […]
from poll taxes up to the next house-by-house census […]
no one laying claim to it or to any part of it […] entering and going out and pulling down and rebuilding […]
which also, with respect to these, Ammonios shall not bring charges nor dispute […]
the price with one half more, and the damages and expenses twofold, and […]
Of the aforewritten, the subscribers: for Ammonios, Chairemon son of Chairemon […]
Alexandros son of Dioskoros: I acknowledge that I have sold the aforementioned […]
of Ammonios, a fourth part of a house, held in common and undivided with […] [with all their]
rights, whose boundaries are also stated above, and I have received the […]
of the quarter of Phanesios, and I will guarantee it with every guarantee and [will deliver it] free [as] stated above […]
[…] Nikarion daughter of Ammonios, with her guardian, her brother Sar[…]: I have bought […]
I, Timotheos son of Maron, wrote on their behalf, since they do not know letters.
The beginning of the document is lost, so the exact relationship between the sellers is unclear. The price is only partly preserved (a sum including one hundred drachmas).
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.