One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11825

Sale of an acacia-wood water-lifting machine TM 11825Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)26 - 33

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A contract of sale from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, in which Harpagathes sells a water-lifting machine of acacia wood, with its buckets and fittings, to Tanephrymis, acting with her husband Horos as guardian. He acknowledges receipt of the full price and guarantees the sale; the deed was registered at the village record office in the reign of Tiberius.

In English machine translation

[1] In the [...]-teenth year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, the 26th of the month Gorpiaios, Epeiph 26, at Soknopaiou Nesos in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. Harpagathes [...], aged about 25, with a scar under [...] hair, acknowledges to Tanephrymis daughter of Harpagathes, aged about [...]-ty-eight, with a scar on the left hand, acting with her guardian, her own husband Horos son of Harpagathes, aged about 50, [with a scar on the ...] middle, that he has sold to them the machine of acacia wood belonging to him [...] [...] together with its little choinix-buckets and cubit-pieces, and that he has received from them on the spot the agreed price in full, and that he will guarantee it with every guarantee as stated above, as if by a court judgment. The contract is valid. Writer for him: Harpagathes the aforementioned; for the others: Horos son of Harpagathes the aforementioned. I, Harpagathes son of [...], acknowledge that I have sold to Tanephrymis daughter of Harpagathes, with her guardian, her own husband Horos son of Harpagathes, the machine of acacia wood belonging to me [...] together with its little buckets and cubit-pieces of the machinery [...] and I have received on the spot the agreed price in full, and I will guarantee it with every guarantee as stated above. Year 1[...] of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, Epeiph 26. Registered through the record office in Soknopaiou Nesos.

The organon is identified as a water-lifting wheel (saqiya); the choinikides are its small buckets and the pecheis probably its wooden parts measured in cubits. The exact regnal year is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Kauf eines Wasserschöpfrades). 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 · 26 - 33 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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