One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11226
Sale of a female camel at Soknopaiou Nesos TM 11226Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)20. Juni 142
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Copy of a contract in which a man connected with a temple acknowledges selling a red female camel, branded with an Arabic mark, to Pe[…] son of Thesenouphis from Soknopaiou Nesos, and receiving several hundred silver drachmas. A scribe wrote for the seller, who knew only Egyptian script. It is dated 20 June 142 in the reign of Antoninus Pius.
In English machine translation
[…]n son of Potamon (?)
[…] of the temple, to Pe[…] son of Thesenouphis
[son of] Thesenouphis, from the Island
[of the Arsi]noite nome, greeting.
I acknowledge that I have sold to you
a female [camel], [first-]foaling (?), with its second teeth, red-coloured,
branded with an Arabic brand on the
[right] jaw, 8 (?), and I have received the price, […]hundred drachmas of silver.
And I will guarantee this [camel], such as it is, with every guarantee, not to be returned. And
[…] I wrote on his behalf
because he does not know letters except
Egyptian ones. Year 5 of Antoninus
Caesar the lord, Pauni 23.
Copy.
'Deuterobolos' means the camel had shed its milk teeth; the restoration 'with foal' or similar for 'hypopolon' is uncertain. 'The Island' is Soknopaiou Nesos; the exact price is lost.
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.30
[…]ν Ποταμόνιος […]τος ἱεροῦ Πη[…] Θεσενούπι Θεσενούπιος ἀπὸ Νήσου τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ πεπρακέναι σοι κάμηλον θήλειαν ὑπόπωλονδευτεροβόλον πυρρὰνκεχαραγμένην Ἀραβικῷ χαράγματι ἐπὶ τῇ δεξιᾷ σιαγόνι η καὶ ἀπέχω τὴν τιμὴν ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς […]κοσίας. καὶ βεβαιώσω πάσῃ βε…