Sale of an animal
Description
The text records the sale of an animal (either a donkey or camel), mentioned in the middle of the damaged line 5. The seller is Asklepiades, son of Asidem(os), and the buyer is Hermias, son of Phanias. The contract is drawn in the form of a cheirografon: The address in which the parties of the agreement are mentioned (l. 1-3), the acknowledgement (l. 3-4), the object and characteristic of the animal (l. 5-6), the terms of the sale (l. 6-9). After that point in the lost part of the document some clauses concerning the price, the exchange and the guaranty, and at the end the subscription of the seller may follow. The year is not mentioned at the beginning, thus it may be mentioned at the end. The place of provenance and the origin of the document are unknown.;On references on transactions mentioning sales and prices of donkeys in papyri and in the Greek and Latin literature see http://www.philology.uoc.gr/ref/Sales_of_Donkeys. For sales of camels see P.Prag. II 155, introd.; P.Brookl. 7. introd.
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- APIS-Text michigan.apis.8249 tier-1
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