One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11229
Sale of two camels to a cavalry decurion for military use TM 11229Arsinoites (?)11. Nov. 161
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A contract in which Tasoucharion, acting through her brother Eudas, sells two branded white male camels to Cassianus, a decurion of the ala Veterana Gallica who had been sent by the prefect of Egypt, Volusius Maecianus, to buy camels for the unit. It is dated 11 November 161, probably in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Tasoucharion daughter of Sotas, through her brother Eudas […], to Cassianus, decurion of the ala Veterana Gallica, sent by Volusius Maecianus, the most illustrious prefect, for the purchase of camels for the use of the ala.
I have sold to you by this handwritten contract 2 full-grown male white camels, branded on the right hind thigh with 'ta', and I have received the agreed price […] silver drachmas […]
and I will guarantee them against every claimant. I have issued this handwritten contract to you in duplicate, which is to be valid wherever it is produced, while […] remains; I, Eudas, issued it to you, there being another handwritten contract of sale of camels in my possession.
Year 2 of Aurelii Antoninus and Verus the lords Augusti, Hathyr 15.
The ala Veterana Gallica was an auxiliary cavalry unit stationed in Egypt; a decurion commanded a troop of it. The price is lost, and the brand letters 'ta' are of uncertain meaning.
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 de deux chameaux à usage militaire). 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.35
Τασουχάριον Σώτου διὰ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Εὐδᾶ […] Κασιανῷ δεκαδάρχῳ εἰλῆς Οὐετρανῆς Γαλλικῆς διαπεμφθέντι ὑπὸ Οὐολουσίου Μαικιανοῦ τοῦ λαμπροτάτου ἡγεμόνος πρὸς συνωνὴν καμήλων εἰς χρείαν τῆς εἴλης. πέπρακά σοι κατὰ τοῦτο τὸ χειρόγραφον καμήλους τελείους ἄρρενας δύο λευκοὺς κεχαραγμένου…