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Sale of a green fodder crop to a priest of Soknopaios TM 11671Nilopolis (Arsinoites)24. März 90

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A contract of sale drawn up at Nilopolis in the Arsinoite nome in AD 90, in which the brothers Papos and Mystharion, sons of Alkimos, acknowledge receiving 500 silver drachmas from Satabous, a priest of Soknopaios, as the price of a crop of green fodder from land they farm. They promise to raise no claims against him, and a scribe signs for them because they are illiterate.

In English machine translation

Year 9 of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, month Artemisios 28, Phamenoth 28, at Nilopolis in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. Papos, aged about 55, with a scar in the middle of the forehead, and Mystharion, aged about 32, with a scar on the first finger of the left hand, both sons of Alkimos, acknowledge to Satabous son of Stotoetis […], of the priests of the great great god Soknopaios, aged about 40, with a scar on the forehead on the left, that they, the acknowledging parties, have received from him forthwith from hand to hand 500 silver drachmas […], which are the price of green fodder of […] arouras and 96 schoinia […] from the land we farm near […] son of Psenyris […], and the guarantee and completion through […] you, for the sowing of the present ninth year of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus; and that the acknowledging parties will not proceed against Satabous nor those acting for him concerning the price which they have received as stated above, nor concerning any other matter whatsoever from past times up to the present day, in any way. Subscribers: for the acknowledging parties, Chairemon son of Ammonios, aged 56, with a scar on the right shin; for the other party, Ploutarchos son of Ploutarchos, aged […], with a scar on the right shin. We, Papos and Mystharion, both sons of Alkimos, acknowledge that we have received from Satabous son of Stotoetis the price of green fodder […] of oxen […] arouras […], which are 500 silver drachmas […] sowing […] and we make no claim, as […]. Chairemon son of Ammonios wrote for them, since they do not know letters.

The text uses a double date, Macedonian Artemisios 28 and Egyptian Phamenoth 28. The subscriber's name appears as both Chaireon and Chairemon in the edition.

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 · 24. März 90 · Nilopolis (Arsinoites)

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