One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11330
Sale of a female donkey at Kerkesoucha TM 11330Kerkesucha (Arsinoites)28. Juli 137
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A contract recording the sale of a full-grown white female donkey by Pnepheros son of Heraklees to Panephremmis son of Apynchis, both of Kerkesoucha, for 106 silver drachmas. It was drawn up at Kerkesoucha in the Arsinoite nome in AD 137, with a scribe signing for the illiterate buyer.
In English machine translation
Year 21 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Kaisareios 4, at Kerkesoucha in the division of Herakleides of the Arsinoite nome.
Pnepheros son of Heraklees, aged about 45, with a scar on the little finger of the left hand, from Kerkesoucha, acknowledges to Panephremmis son of Apynchis, aged about 30, with a scar on the forehead on the right, that he has sold to him a female donkey, full-grown, white, mouse-coloured, not subject to return. He has received the price of 106 silver drachmas, and he guarantees the sale. The writer for the purchaser is Mystharion son of Sabinus, the other party being literate.
I, Pnepheros son of Heraklees, have sold as stated above. I, Panephremmis son of Apynchis, have bought from him as stated above. I, Mystharion son of Sabinus, wrote for him, as he does not know letters.
Kaisareios is the Roman-era name for the Egyptian month Mesore. The donkey is sold 'not subject to return', meaning the buyer cannot rescind the sale for defects.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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.grenf.2.46
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