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bgu.3.937 14. Febr. 250Herakleopolis
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Sale of a Pontic slave boy named Karos. A contract for the sale of a 13-year-old slave boy named Karos, from Pontus, bought by Aurelius Herakleios also called Nemesianos from Marcus Aurelius Nemesianos, with a co-guarantor. The seller had originally acquired the boy at Lyrbe in Asia Minor. Written at Herakleopolis in AD 250. machine translation
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- Ein Sklavenkauf - Vertrag HGV-meta Herakleopolis14. Febr. 250
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Transcription
ἔτους πρώτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Γαίου Μεσσίου Τραιανοῦ
Δεκείου Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς Σεβαστοῦ μηνὸς Ξαντικοῦ Μεχεὶρ εἰκάδι ἐν Ἡρακλέους πόλει τῇ ὑπὲρ Μέμφιν. ἐπρίατο Αὐρήλιος Ἡράκλειος ὁ καὶ Νεμεσιανὸς
Ὠριγένους μητρὸς Τιαῆσις ἀφʼ Ἡρακλέους πόλεως ἀρχαίας καὶ θεοφίλου ὡς ἐτῶν
τεσσαράκοντα πέντε οὐλὴ μετώπῳ παρὰ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Νεμεσιανοῦ ὡς ἐτῶν
τεσσαράκοντα ὀκτὼ οὐλὴ μετώπῳ μετὰ συνβεβαιωτοῦ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἡρακλείου μητρὸς Ἡρωνίδου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς Ἡρακλέους πόλεως ὡς ἐτῶν τριάκοντα τεσσάρων οὐλὴ πήχει δεξιῷ ὃν καὶ αὐτὸς ἐώνηται ἐν τῇ λαμπροτάτῃπόλει Λύρβῃ ἐπὶ
δημιουργοῦ ἱερέως θεᾶς Ῥώμης καὶ γυμνασιάρχου Καλλίστου
τιλλίου Καλλίστου δοῦλον ὀνόματι Κᾶρον γένει Ποντικὸν ὡς ἐτῶν δέκα
τριῶν , ὃν καὶ αὐτόθι παρείληφεν ὁ Αὐρήλιος Ἡράκλειος ὁ καὶ Νεμεσιανὸς
τοῦτον τοιοῦτον ἀναπόρριφον χωρὶς ἐπαφῆς καὶ ἱερᾶς νόσου τιμῆς[…]
[…]νην τ…………… τιμὴν ………
ἀργυρίου νομίσματος δραχμαὶ ……………
[…]Μάρκος Αὐρήλιος Λουκιανὸς α[…]Αὐρηλίου Ἡρακλείου τοῦ καὶ Νεμεσιανοῦ […]
[…]ωλων Μάρκος Αὐρήλιος Λουκιανὸς
[…]ασπριας τὸν δοῦλον Κᾶρον καθαρὸν ἀπό τε
ἄλλων πράσεων ἢ ἑτέρων οἰκονομιῶν. βεβαιοῖ δὲ ὁ αὐτὸςπαρὼν Μάρκος
Αὐρήλιος Λουκιανὸς καὶ συμβεβαιωτὴς […]
[… 2 lines lost …]Translations (1)
In the first year of Imperator Caesar Gaius Messius Traianus Decius Pius Felix Augustus, in the month Xanthikos, Mecheir 20, at Herakleopolis above Memphis. Aurelius Herakleios also called Nemesianos, son of Horigenes, his mother being Tiaesis, from Herakleopolis the ancient and god-beloved, about 45 years old, with a scar on the forehead, has bought from Marcus Aurelius Nemesianos, about 48 years old, with a scar on the forehead, with as co-guarantor Marcus Aurelius Herakleios, his mother being Heronis, from the same Herakleopolis, about 34 years old, with a scar on the right forearm, a slave, whom he himself had bought in the most splendid city of Lyrbe, in the term of the demiurge, priest of the goddess Roma and gymnasiarch Kallistos son of […]tillius Kallistos, named Karos, of Pontic origin, about 13 years old, whom Aurelius Herakleios also called Nemesianos has also received there, such as he is, not returnable, free of epaphe and of the sacred disease, for a price […]
[…] price […]
[…] drachmas of silver coin […]
[…] Marcus Aurelius Loukianos […] of Aurelius Herakleios also called Nemesianos […]
[…] Marcus Aurelius Loukianos
[…] the slave Karos free from other sales or other transactions. The same Marcus Aurelius Loukianos, being present, guarantees, and the co-guarantor […]
[… 2 lines lost …]
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