One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1499
Sale of property at Pathyris by Petosiris to Pakoibis, with tax receipt TM 1499Pathyris16. Febr. 106 v.Chr.
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A sale contract drawn up before the agoranomos's office at Pathyris, in which Petosiris son of Paos, a Persian of the epigone, sells property at Pathyris to Pakoibis son of Patous. A bank docket records payment of the 10% sales tax on a price of 2 bronze talents, dated 16 February 106 BC.
In English machine translation
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Pakoibis
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In the reign of Cleopatra, goddess Euergetis, and King Ptolemy surnamed Alexander, her son, gods Philometores, year […] which is also […], in the time of the priests and priestesses and the kanephoros in office, in the month […], at Pathyris, before Hermias the deputy of Paniskos, agoranomos. […] also called Petosiris, son of Paos, Persian of the epigone, sold […] a scar on the right foot, the […] belonging to him […] of Pathyris, whose neighbours are: to the south […] or whoever the neighbours may be […]
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[…] son of Patous, as […], negotiator and guarantor of the terms of the sale is Petosiris the seller, whom Pakoibis the buyer accepted. I, Hermias, deputy of Paniskos, have registered it.
Year 11, Mecheir 1. Paid to the tenth of the sales tax through Apollonios, by Pakoibis son of Patous, […] contract […] from Petosiris, (price) 2 talents of bronze, tax 1,200 (drachmas).
Apollonios, banker.
The nature of the property is lost; the tax figure 'Ασ' is read as 1,200 bronze drachmas, one tenth of 2 talents. 'Persian of the epigone' is a legal status label of the Ptolemaic period, not an ethnic description.
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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