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Year 6, Choiak, of the Pharaoh Ptolemy, the son of Ptolemy and Arsinoe the gods who love their father, the priest of Alexander and the gods who save and the brother gods and the beneficent gods (and) the gods who love their father (being) Andromachos, son of Lysimachos, the woman Themista, daughter of [Hegesistratos], being the bearer of the gift of [victory] before Berenice the beneficent goddess, [Strates], daughter of Ptolemy, being the bearer of the golden basket before Arsinoe who loves her brother.;Has said the farmer, the servant of Hathor-mistress-of-Aphroditopolis Isis, the great goddess, Patous the younger, son of Patous, his mother (being) [Esenrenphis], to the woman Nobwotis, daughter of Psammatichos, her mother (being) Taarmothes:;[Thou] hast caused my heart [to be satisfied with the silver of] the price of everything which is mine together with that which I shall acquire: house, field, courtyard, unbuilt plot, wall, vineyard, trees, male servant, female servant, cow, she ass, every (sort of) small animal, every endowment, every title, and every matter in the world of a free man, which is mine together with that which I shall acquire; thine they are from today [onward].;I have sold them to thee.;I have received their price of 2[1] (deben) of sliver, [my] heart [is satisfied] (4) therewith; they are complete without reminder.;No person in the world shall be able to exercise authority over them except thee.;(as for) any person in the world who shall come against thee in regard to them, I shall cause him to be far from thee.;And I will cause that they be clear for thee at all times from every document, every title, and every matter in the world.;Thine is every document which has been made concerning them together with every document which has been made for me or which has been made for my father or my mother concerning them together with every document to which I am [entitled] in their name; [thine] they are together with [their law].;(5) Thine is that to which I am entitled in their name.;(As for) the oath (or) the confirmation, which shall be required from thee to cause me to do it in their name, I will make it.;I will make for thee the document of <specie > payment for everything, which is mine together with that which I shall acquire [aforesaid].;Thou hast claim on me in regard to the law of the document of endowment of 21 (deben) of sliver which I have made for thee, which makes two documents.;Thou hast claim on me in regard to their law [to] do for thee accordingly.;[On]nophris, (son of) PeteȽsis, as written (it).