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In the consulship of Flavius Eusebius and Flavius Hypatius, most illustrious, on the fourth of October, with good fortune, in the colony of faithful and free Ascalon, in the second sixty-fourth year of the month of Gorpiaios, Flavius Vitalianus, a leader of the mounted Veexellations of armored cavalry stationed now in the city of Arsinoe of Egypt, under Dorotheus the tribune, bought from Flavius Agemundus, senator of the Constantiacan auxilia, under Varius the tribune, now attached to the distinguished Constantiacan soldiers residing here, his slave named Argutin or whatever else he may be called, Greek by race, being about fourteen years old, fair-skinned, healthy, clear-eyed, straight-haired, at the agreed price between them of eighteen golden despotikon tetradrachms, which price of eighteen golden coins he has received and the seller was paid by the buyer according to the presented sale and by hand, and he delivered to him the aforementioned slave to have as his property and to own as a master, to use and to sell, to manage in whatever manner he chooses, from this day forward and forever. And if anyone should make a claim against the sold slave or bear anything against him in any way, the seller and his successors will secure to the buyer at their own expense or will compensate him immediately for the price and the damage and whatever else it may concern him and his successors. The severe illness and ancient hidden affliction until six months and the action until twelve months similarly the seller and his successors will secure to the buyer and his successors or will compensate him for the price and the damage and whatever it may concern him and his successors, the transaction having been made to the buyer from the seller and his assets, of what he now owns and what he may afterwards acquire in any property and race, thus each of them is subjected as security by the right of pledge and mortgage, to have the authority [...] against the laws [...]