One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11224
Sale of a female camel TM 11224Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)30. Jan. 137
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A contract of sale in which Asanis of Therenouthis in the Prosopite nome sells a branded female camel to Panouphis of Soknopaiou Nesos for 450 silver drachmas. Asanis had himself bought the animal from Vegetus also called Sarapion, strategos of the Herakleides division. Dated 30 January AD 137, Soknopaiou Nesos.
In English machine translation
Asanis son of Kenthnouphis, of those from the village of Therenouthis in the Prosopite nome, to Panouphis son of Tesenouphis, grandson of Tesenouphis, of those from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos in the division of Herakleides, greetings.
I acknowledge that I have sold to you a female camel, having shed its first teeth (?), branded on the right thigh and the right jaw with an Arabic brand […], which I myself happen […] having bought (it) from Vegetus also called Sarapion, strategos of the division of Herakleides, and I have received the agreed price of 450 silver drachmas, total 450 drachmas, and I will guarantee her with every guarantee as such, not to be returned.
Year 21 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Mecheir 5.
The term protobolos refers to a young animal that has shed its first (milk) teeth. 'Not to be returned' (anaporiphos) means the sale is final and the buyer cannot return the animal for defects.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contrat de vente d’une chamelle). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.gen.1.2ed.29
Ἀσᾶνις Κενθνούφεως τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Θερενούθεως τοῦ Προσωπίτου νομοῦ Πανούφει Τεσενούφεως τοῦ Τεσενούφεως τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ πεπρακέναι σοι κάμηλον θηλεῖαν πρωτοβόλον κεχαραγμένην δεξιῷ μηρῷ καὶ δεξιᾷ σιαγόνι Ἀραβικῷ χαρακτῆρι φ…[……