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A contract in which Teseuris, daughter of Mythos, of the village of Philadelphia, records the sale of her full-grown black cow to a woman named Kopria for 120 1/2 silver drachmas and guarantees the sale. Sarapammon wrote it for her because she was illiterate.
The regnal year is given without the emperor's name, so the exact date is uncertain. The reference to 'Augustan' drachmas points to the Roman imperial period.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Venditionis instrumentum). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Τεσεῦρις Μύθου ἀπὸ κώμης Φιλαδελφίας Κοπρίᾳ[…]ιπνανις χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ πεπρακέναι τὴν ὑπάρχουσάν μοι βοῦν μελαίνην τελείαν ἀργυρίου Σεβαστῶν δραχμῶν ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι ἥμισυ εἰς πλήρης καὶ βεβαιώσω πάσῃ βεβαιώσει καὶ καθαρὸν ἀπὸ παντὸς κινδύνου. ἔτους κα Μεσορὴ […]. Σαραπάμμων[…]ως ἔγ…
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