Sale of a Donkey
An acknowledgment of the sale, for 500 drachmas, of a young male donkey. The seller is Julianus, son of Octavius, from Hippos in Palestine. The buyer is Ptolemaeus, son of Pancrates and father of Isidorus.
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Sale of a young donkey by a man from Hippos to Ptolemaios of Karanis TM 10414Kom Aushim (Karanis)Oct. 24th 267 A.D.
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A contract recording the sale of a young black male donkey for 500 silver drachmas. The seller is Aurelius Julianus, a man from Hippos in Palestine, and the buyer is Aurelius Ptolemaios of Karanis; it was drawn up in the metropolis of the Arsinoite nome in October 267.
In English machine translation
Year 15 of our lord Gallienus Augustus, Phaophi 27, in the metropolis of the Arsinoite nome.
Aurelius Julianus son of Oktaeios (Octavius), of Hippos in Palestine, aged 36, with a scar on the right shin, acknowledges that he has sold to Aurelius Ptolemaios son of Pankrates, from the village of Karanis, a male black donkey, a foal, without teeth shed (?), at the price of 500 drachmas of silver, total 500 drachmas,
and having been asked the formal question they acknowledged it.
The term 'abolos' describes an animal that has not yet shed its milk teeth, i.e. a very young animal. One record dates the text to 24 October rather than 25 October 267.
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 Donkey). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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