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p.oxy.36.2777 4. März 212Oxyrhynchos

Sale of a Slave via HGV-meta

Sale of the house-born slave Thonis alias Epagathos. A contract for the sale of a slave drawn up at Oxyrhynchus in March 212 AD. Statoria Philoxena, a Roman woman acting without a guardian by the right of children, sells her house-born slave Thonis alias Epagathos, aged about 19, to Lucius Valerius Severus alias Melas for 1,600 drachmas, after an official examination of the slave by the strategos Didymos. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[…]…[…] ἔτους[…] Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνείνου Παρθικοῦ μεγίστου Βρεταννικοῦ μεγίστου Εὐσεβοῦς Σεβαστοῦ Ἀρτεμεισίου Φαμενὼθ η ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει ἐπὶ ἐπιτηρητῶν ἀγορανομίου Δωροθέωνος καὶ τοῦ σὺν αὐτῷ. ἐπρίατο Λούκιος Οὐαλέριος Σεουῆρος ὁ καὶ Μέλας ὡς ἐτῶν μδ οὐλὴ ῥινὶ μέσῃ παρὰ Στατωρίας Φιλοξένας ὡς ἐτῶν ν οὐλὴ καρπῷ δεξιᾶς χειρὸς χωρὶς κυρίου χρηματιζούσης κατὰ τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἔθη τέκνων δικαίῳ ἐν ἀγυιᾷ τὸν ὑπάρχοντα αὐτῇ οἰκογενῆ ἐκ δούλης Ἰσιδώρας δοῦλον Θῶνιν τὸν καὶ Ἐπάγαθον ὡς ἐτῶν ιθ παράστραβον οὐλὴ μετώπῳ ἀνακριθέντα ὑπὸ τοῦ τοῦ νομοῦ στρατηγοῦ Διδύμου τῷ ὄντι μηνὶ ἀκολούθως οἷς ἐπέδωκεν αὐτῷ ὁ ὠνούμενος τῆς ἀνακρίσεως βιβλιδίοις έν τὸ ἐπὶ ὑπογραφῇ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ μοναχὸν ἔσχεν παρʼ ἑαυτῷ ὁ αὐτὸς ὠνούμενος ὅστις καὶ αὐτόθι παρείληφε παρὰ τῆς Στατωρίας Φιλοξένας τὸν δοῦλον Θῶνιν τὸν καὶ Ἐπάγαθον τοῦτον τοιοῦτον ἀναπόρριφον πλὴν ἱερᾶς νόσου καὶ ἐπαφῆς τὰς δὲ συνπεφωνημένας ὑπὲρ τιμῆς τοῦ αὐτοῦ δούλου Θώνιος τοῦ καὶ Ἐπαγάθου ἀργυρίου Σεβαστοῦ νομίσματος δραχμὰς χιλίας ἑξακοσίας αὐτόθι ἀπέσχεν ἡ Στατωρία Φιλόξενα παρὰ τοῦ ὠνουμένου Σεουήρου τοῦ καὶ Μέλανος ἐκ πλήρους. πωλεῖ καὶ βεβαιοῖ ἡ Στατωρία Φιλόξενα τὸν αὐτὸν δοῦλον ὡς πρόκειται ἐν ἀγυιᾷ τῇ αὐτῇ [… ? lines lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] Year […] of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Parthicus Maximus Britannicus Maximus Pius Augustus, Artemisios-Phamenoth 8, in the city of Oxyrhynchus, before Dorotheon and his colleague, overseers of the agoranomeion. Lucius Valerius Severus alias Melas, aged about 44, with a scar in the middle of the nose, has bought from Statoria Philoxena, aged about 50, with a scar on the wrist of the right hand, acting without a guardian according to the customs of the Romans by the right of children, in the open street, the house-born slave belonging to her, born of the slave Isidora, Thonis alias Epagathos, aged about 19, squint-eyed (?), with a scar on the forehead, who was examined by the strategos of the nome, Didymos, in the present month in accordance with the petitions of examination which the purchaser submitted to him, one copy of which, bearing the subscription of the strategos, the same purchaser has kept with him; and he has on the spot received from Statoria Philoxena this slave Thonis alias Epagathos, such as he is, not subject to return except for epilepsy and legal claim; and the agreed 1,600 drachmas of silver of imperial coinage for the price of the same slave Thonis alias Epagathos Statoria Philoxena has on the spot received in full from the purchaser Severus alias Melas. Statoria Philoxena sells and guarantees the same slave as stated above, in the same street […] […]

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