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Koine Greek

ἔτους ὀκτωκαιδεκάτου

Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος

Νέρουα Τραι

ανοῦ Ἀρίστου

Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Δακικο(ῦ)

Μεχεὶρ τρίτῃ καὶ εἰκάδι ἐν Θεα-δελφείᾳ τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδο(ς)

ὁμο̣λογεῖ Ἀπολήειος Ἀκουσιλάου Πέρσης τῆς ἐπιγονῆς ὡς ἐτῶν τριάκο(ντα)

οὐλὴ δακτύλῳ μικρῷ χειρὸ(ς) ἀριστερᾶς Φάσιτει Χαιρήμο(νος) ὡς ἐτῶν τεσσεράκοντα οὐλ(ὴ)

ὀφρ[ύ]ι ἀριστερᾷ ἐπικεχωρη-κέναι αὐτῷ εἰς τὸ ἐνεστὸς̣

ὀκτωκαιδέκατον ἔτος ἐν οἷς γεωργεῖ περὶ τὴν κώμην δημοσίοις ἐδάφεσι πρὸς τό(πῳ)

Ἁρμαεῖς ἐν κλή(ρῳ) Ματεῖ λεγο-μένῳ ἀρούρης ἥμισοι

τέταρτ(ον) ὄ̣γδον

τετρακαιξηκοστὸν

<ἢ> ὅσων ἐὰν

ᾖ τὸ καὶ προκα-τε̣[σ]π̣αρμένον ὑ̣πὸ τοῦ Φάσει-τος ἄρακει

εἰς κατάβρωμα καὶ κοιτασμὸν βοῶν καὶ ἀπέ-χιν̣

τὸν Ἀπολήειον παρὰ τοῦ Φάσειτος τὴν συνκεχο-ρημένην

πρὸς ἀλλήλους τειμὴν

ἐκ πλήρους καὶ βεβαι-ώσιν

πάσῃ βεβαιώσι

ἡ συνγρα-φὴ κυρία. (hand 2) Ἀπολήειος Ἀκο]υ̣σιλάου̣

Latin

Apparatus

τραϊανου papyrus

Translation into English

In the year of the eighteenth (year) of the Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan, in the month of Aristus, of the August Germanic Dacian, on the third day and the thirtieth in the Thea-Delphia of the Themistus portion of the Arsinoite law. Apolleius Akousilaus, a Persian of the descendants, acknowledges that he is thirty years old, with a small finger of the left hand of Phasite Chairemon, as he is forty years old, with a left eyebrow having been transferred to him into the present.

In the eighteenth year in which he cultivates around the village on public lands towards the place of the Harmaeis in the lot called Matei, half of the arable land.

Fourth, eighth, the two hundred and forty.

Or as many as there may be, that which has been previously assigned by Phasitos, is for consumption and the keeping of cattle and to be kept.

The Apolleius from Phasitos, the granted to one another, the honor from the full and the confirmation in all confirmation. The writing is authoritative. Apolleius Akousilaus.