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Sale of a young female donkey at Karanis TM 10416Karanis (Arsinoites)309

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A contract of sale in which Aurelia Aeis of Karanis sells a young white female donkey to Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios of the same village for 2 talents and 3,000 drachmas. She acknowledges payment, and a scribe signs for her because she is illiterate. It dates to AD 309 at Karanis.

In English machine translation

Aurelia Aeis, daughter of Paesis, her mother being Tales, from the village of Karanis, has declared and acknowledged that she has sold to Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, from the same village, a female donkey, a foal that has not yet shed its teeth, white, for the price agreed between them of 2 talents and 3,000 drachmas of silver, in full, from hand to hand, the guarantee being incumbent on her against anyone who may proceed against or lay claim to it. The buyer has received the donkey forthwith, such as it is, not to be returned. The sale is valid, and in answer to the formal question she gave her assent. I, Aurelia Aeis, have sold the she-foal donkey and have received the price as stated above. I, Aurelius Paesis son of Ision, wrote on her behalf since she is illiterate. In the consulship of our masters Valerius Licinianus Licinius Augustus and Flavius Valerius Constantinus, son of the Augusti.

"Not yet shed its teeth" renders Greek abolos, used of young animals that still have their milk teeth. "Not to be returned" (anaporriphos) means the buyer accepts the animal as is and cannot reject it later.

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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 309 · Karanis (Arsinoites)

προσεφώνησεν καὶ ὡμολόγησεν Αὐρηλία Ἀεῖς Παησίου μητρὸς Ταλῆτος ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανείδος πεπρακέναι Αὐρηλίῳ Ἰσιδώρῳ Πτολεμαίου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης ὄνον θήλειαν πῶλον ἄβολον λευκήν, τιμῆς τῆς συμπεφωνημένης πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀργυρίου ταλάντων δύο καὶ δραχμῶν τρισχιλίων ἐκ πλήρους διὰ χειρ…