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Copies of documents relating to various property, likely belonging to the same family.
Translation: I, Antiochos, … taktomisthos, am acquainted with Demainetos the heir aforesaid of the property of his mother Myrtale daughter of Didymos, a Persian woman; to him belongs the inheritance and to none other, as aforesaid. I, Demeas son of Protarchos, of the Apian deme, of the troop of Aristoteles, taktomisthos, am acquainted with Demainetos the heir aforesaid of the property of his mother Myrtale daughter of Didymos, a Persian woman; to him belongs the inheritance and to none other, as aforesaid. Demainetos is aged about 35 years, fair, curly-haired, having a long face and rather bright eyes, … with a scar along his left ear; Antiochus is aged about 40 year, short, fair, straight-haired, having a long face and a mole by his right eyebrow; and Demeas is aged about 45 years, of middle height, fair, straight-haired, bald on the forehead, long-faced, short-sighted, with a scar on the left eyebrow. ... N.N. to Demainetos and Hyllos and Ptolemaios, greeting. Since the house belonging to us at Herakleopolis above Memphis has been knocked down to you in pledge, sell it as you please and I who am the next of kin will not proceed against it nor you nor the purchasers nor shall another do so on my behalf on any pretext whatever. If I do any of the things above written or another on my behalf, I or the person who proceeds on my behalf will be liable to you and will further forfeit as a sacred offering 1000 drachmas of silver. Let this be valid wherever produced either by you or those in valid accord with you. Good-bye. The thirteenth year, Mecheir 24. Copy of a six-witness contract. In the reign of Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios … and Arsinoe, the gods Philopatores, while N.N. son of Eumelos was priest of Alexander and the gods Soteres and the gods Adelphoi and the gods Euergetai and the gods Philopatores and the gods Epiphanai, while Artemidora daughter of Diogenes was athlophoros of Berenike Euergetis, while Apollonia daughter of Athenodoros was kanephoros of Arsinoe Philadelphos, while Eirene daughter of Ptolemaios was priestess of Arsinoe Philopator, in the month Apellaios, on the twenty-ninth, in Herakleous polis. Ptolemaios, son of Amyntas, Macedonian of the troop of Hekataios, taktomisthos, acknowledges to Mesoesis son of Alexandros ... (Here the papyrys breaks off. Only few letter remaining of col. III.)

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