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p.kellis.1.8 29. Aug. - 27. Sept. 362Kellis (Oasis Magna)
Sale of a Slave via HGV-meta
Sale of a house-born slave girl to the carpenter Tithoes. A contract of sale in which a couple from Kellis, Psais and his wife Tatoup, sell a house-born slave girl, whom Tatoup had nursed with her own milk, to the carpenter Tithoes for 2 gold solidi. It was written in the month Thoth of AD 362 at Kellis in the Dakhla Oasis, with a subscription by a literate former magistrate and two witnesses. machine translation
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- Sale of a Slave HGV-meta Kellis (Oasis Magna)29. Aug. - 27. Sept. 362
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
Αὐρήλιοι Ψάις Πεκύσιος Παλιτοῦτος καὶ Τατοῦπ ἡ αὐτοῦ γυνή, ἀμφότεροι ἀπὸ κώμης Κέλλεως
τοῦ Μωθίτου νομοῦ καταμένοντες ἐν ἐποικίῳ Ε…[…]Αὐρηλίῳ Τιθοεῖ Πετήσιος τέκτονι ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ χαίρειν. ὁμολογοῦμεν πεπρακέναι σοι καὶ καταγεγραφέναι ἀπὸ τοῦ
νῦν ἐπὶ τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν ἡμῖν δούλην χαμαίρετον τροφευθεῖσαν ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ τῆς
προκειμένης γυναικὸς τῷ ἐμαυτῆς γάλακτι τιμὴς τῆς πρὸς ἀλλήλους συνπεφωνημένης
δεποτικῶν ἁπλῶν νεοχαράκτων νομισματίων δύο, γίνεται νομισμάτια β, ἅπερ ἐδεξάμεθα παρὰ σοῦ διὰ χειρὸς πλήρη ἐφʼ οἷς εὐδοκοῦμεν πᾶσι τοῖς ἐγγεγραμμένοις πρὸς τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν σε τὸν ὠνούμενον ἐπικρατεῖν
καὶ κυριεύειν καὶ δεσπόζειν τῆς πεπραμένης σοι δούλης καὶ ἐξουσίαν ἔχειν διοικεῖν καὶ οἰκονομεῖν
περὶ αὐτῆς τρόπῳ ᾧ ἂν αἱρῇ, τῆς βεβαιώσεως ἐξακολουθούσης ἡμῖν τοῖς ἀποδομένοις διὰ παντὸς
ἀπὸ παντὸς τοῦ ἐπελευσομένου ἢ ἀντιποιησομένου. κυρία ἡ πρᾶσις δισσῆ γραφεῖσα ἐφʼ ὑπογραφῆς τοῦ
ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ὑπογράφοντος βεβαία ἔστω καὶ ἔννομος πανταχοῦ ἐπιφερομένη καὶ ἐπερωτηθέντες ὡμολογήσαμεν.
ὑπατείας Μαμερτίνου καὶ Νεβουιέττα τῶν λαμπροτάτων, Θὼθ καθʼ Ἕλληνας.
Αὐρήλιος Ψάις Πεκύσιος καὶ Τατοῦπ γυνὴ οἱ προκείμενοι πεπράκαμεν τὴν προκειμένην δούλην ……
καὶ ἀπέσχομεν τὴν τιμὴν ἐν χρυσοῦ νομισματίοις δυσὶ καὶ βεβαιώσομέν σοι πάσῃ βεβαιώσει ὡς πρόκειται
καὶ ἐπερωτηθέντες ὡμολογήσαμεν. ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν γράμματα μὴ εἰδότων Αὐρήλιος Τιμόθεος
Ἁρποκρατίωνος ἄρξας ἀξιωθείς
Αὐρήλιος Δημοσθένης Πολυκράτους ἀπὸ κώμης Κέλλεως μαρτυρῶ.
Αὐρήλιος Ὡρίων Τιμοθέου ἀπὸ κώμης Κέλλεως μαρτυρῶ.Translations (1)
Aurelii Psais son of Pekysis, son of Palitous, and Tatoup his wife, both from the village of Kellis of the Mothite nome, residing in the hamlet of E[…], to Aurelius Tithoes son of Petesis, carpenter, from the same village of the same nome, greetings. We acknowledge that we have sold and conveyed to you from now for all time the house-born slave girl belonging to us, who was reared by me, the aforementioned wife, with my own milk, for the price agreed between us of 2 single newly minted imperial solidi, total 2 sol., which we have received from you in full from hand to hand, on all the terms written herein we being content, so that from now you the buyer shall possess and own and be master of the slave girl sold to you and have the power to manage and dispose of her in whatever way you choose, the guarantee being incumbent upon us the sellers always against anyone who may proceed against or [lay claim]. The sale, written in two copies with the subscription of the one subscribing for us, is valid; let it be secure and lawful wherever produced, and having been asked the formal question we have consented.
In the consulship of Mamertinus and Nevitta, the most illustrious, Thoth according to the Greeks.
We, Aurelius Psais son of Pekysis and Tatoup his wife, the aforementioned, have sold the aforementioned slave girl … and have received the price in 2 gold solidi, and we will guarantee her to you with every guarantee as stated above, and having been asked the formal question we have consented. I, Aurelius Timotheos son of Harpokration, former magistrate, wrote on their behalf, as they do not know letters, having been asked.
I, Aurelius Demosthenes son of Polykrates, from the village of Kellis, am witness.
I, Aurelius Horion son of Timotheos, from the village of Kellis, am witness.
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Kellis (Oasis Magna)
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 20275 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.kellis;1;8 tier-1
- HGV-Text 20275 tier-1
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