chrest.mitt.160 9. Aug. 142Herakleia (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

Registered through the record office in Herakleia. In the fifth year of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, month Kaisareios 16, Mesore 16, at Herakleia in the division of Themistos of the Arsinoite nome. Dioskoros son of Kastor, grandson of Herakleides, from the quarter of the First Goose-Pens, about 38 years old, with a scar above the left cheek, acknowledges to Stotoetis son of Horos, grandson of Tesenouphis, from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos, about 20 years old, with a scar in the middle of the forehead, that he, the acknowledging party, has sold to him the male donkey belonging to him, full-grown, mouse-grey white in colour, just as it is, not to be returned, without defect, and that the acknowledging party has received from Stotoetis the price agreed for it, in full, 148 drachmas of silver capital, immediately from hand to hand, and that he will guarantee it with every guarantee. I, Dioskoros son of Kastor, have sold to Stotoetis the aforementioned donkey and have received the price, 148 silver drachmas, and I will guarantee it as stated above. I, Alkimos, clerk of the aforementioned record office, wrote on his behalf, since he says he does not know letters.