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Sale of a female donkey by Dionysios to Satabous TM 11667Arsinoites, Ägypten20. Sept. 69

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A contract in which Dionysios son of Eudaimon acknowledges selling a full-grown mouse-coloured female donkey to Satabous son of Stotoetis and receiving the full price, with a guarantee of title. It was drawn up in the Arsinoite nome in the second year of Vespasian, in AD 69.

In English machine translation

In the second year of Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus, month of Sebastos 23, at […] of the Arsinoite nome. Dionysios son of Eudaimon, aged about 57, with a scar on the right forehead, acknowledges to Satabous son of Stotoetis, aged about 45, with a scar … left, that he, the acknowledging party, has sold to him from the donkeys belonging to him a female donkey, full-grown, mouse-coloured, this one just as it is, not subject to return; and that the acknowledging party has received from Satabous the agreed price in full, from hand to hand out of the house; and that the acknowledging party and those acting for him will guarantee it to Satabous with every guarantee. The writer for Satabous is Ptolemaios […], aged about 40 […] […] with a scar on the left shin. I, Dionysios son of Eudaimon, acknowledge that I have sold […] […] to me (?) […]

Sebastos is the honorific name for the month Thoth. Vespasian's second regnal year began on 29 August 69, so this date falls very early in it." }

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 20. Sept. 69 · Arsinoites, Ägypten

ἔτους δευτέρου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Οὐεσπασιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ μηνὸς Σεβαστοῦ κγ ἐν […] τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογεῖ Διονύσιος Εὐδαίμονος ὡς ἐτῶν πεντήκοντα ἑπτὰ οὐλὴ μετώπῳ δεξιῷ Σαταβοῦτι Στοτοήτιος ὡς ἐτῶν τεσσαράκοντα πέντε οὐλὴ … ἀριστερᾶι πεπρακέναι αὐτῶι τὸν ὁμολογοῦντα ἀπὸ…