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Sale of a male donkey at Bakchias TM 11493Bakchias (Arsinoites)25. Sept. 123

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Contract of sale in which Apollonios son of Horion, a Libyan aged about 52, sells a male donkey of whitish mouse-grey colour to Kraton son of Kraton. It was drawn up at Bakchias in the Arsinoite nome in September AD 123; the text breaks off after the sale clause.

In English machine translation

Year 8 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, month Sebastos 27th, Thoth 27, at Bakchias in the division of Herakleides of the Arsinoite nome. Apollonios son of Horion son of Apollonios, Libyan, about 52 years old, with a scar on his right forearm, acknowledges to Kraton son of Kraton, about 48 years old, with a scar on the forehead on the right below […], that he, the acknowledging party, has sold to him a male donkey […] mouse-grey-white, this one just as it is, not returnable […]

'Not returnable' (anaporiphon) means the buyer accepts the animal as it is and cannot send it back. Sebastos was an honorific name for the month Thoth.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Vente d’un âne). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 25. Sept. 123 · Bakchias (Arsinoites)

ἔτους ὀγδόου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ μηνὸς Σεβαστοῦ ἑβδόμῃ καὶ εἰκάδι Θὼθ κζ. ἐν Βακχιάδι τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογεῖ Ἀπολλώνιος Ὡρίωνος τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου Λίβυς ὡς ἐτῶν πεντήκοντα δύο οὐλὴ πήχει δεξιῶι Κράτωνι κράτωνος ὡς ἐτῶν τεσσα…