A contract of sale written at Ptolemais Euergetis in January AD 180, in which Thases, acting with her husband as guardian, sells one of her six registered camels to Stotoetis son of Anchophis, all from Soknopaiou Nesos. She acknowledges receiving several hundred silver drachmas and guarantees the sale; the buyer must register the camel in the livestock register.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 20 of the Emperors Caesars Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus Augusti, Armeniaci, Medici, Parthici, Germanici, Sarmatici Maximi, month of Dystros, Tybi 30, at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome. Thases daughter of Anchophis, about 35 years old, distinguished by her right eye, with her guardian, her husband Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, about 50 years old, with a scar on the right forearm, acknowledges to Stotoetis son of Anchophis, about 32 years old, with a scar on the left cheek, all from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos, that she, Thases, has sold to Stotoetis, from the six camels which she has in the register at the village, one camel, and that she has received the price, […]hundred silver drachmas, the guarantee being incumbent on her, and that Stotoetis must register it in the register of livestock.
I, Stotoetis, have signed as guardian.
I, Thases daughter of Anchophis, with my guardian, my husband Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, have sold and received from Stotoetis son of Anchophis […]hundred drachmas, as aforesaid. I, Tar[…] son of D[…], wrote on behalf of Thases, who is illiterate, while Stotoetis himself writes slowly.
[…] Year 20, Tybi 30.
[verso]
The price is damaged: only the ending of a number of hundreds of drachmas survives. Buyer and seller appear to be siblings, both children of Anchophis.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sale of a Camel). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.