Sale of a Colt(?)
Contract for the sale of a (donkey?) colt by Mysthes son of Ptolemaios(?) to an unknown person, for the sum of 48 drachmai.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12045
Sale of a colt by Mysthes son of Ptolemaios TM 12045Karanis (Arsinoites)December 27, 131 A.D.
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A contract in the form of a letter in which Mysthes son of Ptolemaios, a resident of the city's Thracian quarter, acknowledges selling a young colt to a buyer whose name is mostly lost, for 48 silver drachmas. The sale is final and the seller guarantees the title. It is dated 27 November 131 and comes from Karanis.
In English machine translation
Mysthes son of Ptolemaios […]tarchos(?), from the city, registered in the quarter of the Thracians […], to […]on, greetings. I acknowledge that I have sold to you the colt belonging to me, not yet having shed its foal teeth, black, mouse-coloured, for the price of 48 silver drachmas, this colt as it is, not subject to return. And I have received the price, and you have taken over the colt, and I will guarantee it.
Year 16 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Hathyr 30.
Hathyr 30 of Hadrian's year 16 corresponds to 27 November 131; one record gives 27 December, which appears to be an error. 'Abolos' describes a young animal that has not yet shed its first teeth, and the species (horse or donkey) is not stated.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sale of a Colt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.mich.9.552
Μύσθης Πτολεμαίου[…]ταρχου ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Θρακῶν[…] ωνι… χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶι πεπρακέναι σοι τὸν ὑπάρχοντά μοι πῶλον ἄβωλον μελανὸν μυόχρουν τιμῆς ἀργυρίου δραχμῶν τεσσαράκοντα ὀκτὼι τοῦτον τοιοῦτον ἀναπόριφον. καὶ ἀπέσχον τὴν τιμὴν καὶ σὺ παρέλαβες τὸν πῶλον καὶ βεβαιόσ…