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A short sale document in letter form in which Horion son of Sarapion, from the metropolis of the Arsinoite nome, acknowledges selling a white female donkey with her foal to Apynchis and receiving full payment. It is dated to Mesore 16 of year 5 of Septimius Severus and Caracalla (as Caesar), i.e. August AD 197.
The buyer's patronymic is illegible. The metropolis meant is Arsinoe (Ptolemais Euergetis), capital of the Arsinoite nome.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Kauf einer Eselin mit Fohlen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ὡρίων Σαραπίωνος τοῦ Σαραπίωνος ἀπὸ τῆς μητροπόλεως Ἀπῦγχι ……ς χαίρειν. πέπρακά σοι ὄνον θήλειαν λευκὴν καὶ πωλάδα καὶ ἀπέχω τὴν συμπεφωνημένην τιμὴν πᾶσαν ἐκ πλήρους καὶ σὺ ἀπέλαβες τὴν ὄνον καὶ τὴν πῶλον. ἔτους ε Λουκίου Σεπτιμίου Σεουήρου Εὐσεβοῦς Περτίνακος Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Μάρκο…
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