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Instructions to a Rhodian bank to register the auction sale of a slave girl TM 15406Rhodos238 - 244

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Two copies of a record of a slave sale made at Rhodes under Gordian III: Aurelius Quintus of Caesarea sold at public auction through a city bank a young Moorish girl, named Bik[…] or Rufina, to Aurelius Epimachos for fifty-odd denarii. The seller, who was illiterate, instructs the bankers to register the sale, and the banker and a temple-warden confirm registration on Dalios 5.

In English machine translation

[Fragment 1] In the time of the founder and saviour of the city, Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus, and in the priesthood of the Sun of Marcus Aurelius Athanagoras, twice (?), by adoption, in the month of Dalios. Aurelius Quintus son of Hilaros, of Caesarea, sold through the bank of real property (?), by public auction, the auctioneer being Marcus Aurelius Dionysios, three times (?), son of Aponetos, […] a girl named Bik[…] […] Rufina, aged about ten (?) […], by race a Moor, for the price of […] fifty denarii. The buyer was Aurelius Epimachos […] […] Aurelius Quintus son of Hilaros, using as writer Marcus Aurelius Eirenion also called Dionysios, of Rhodes, because I am illiterate, to Marcus Aurelius Dionysios son of Iason by adoption and to Kallikrates […], greetings. Register (the transaction). Dalios 5. I, Marcus Aurelius Dionysios son of Iason by adoption, […], magistrate and banker of the bank [of real property], have registered it. Dalios 5. I, Eutyches, temple-warden of the house of the city, have registered it. [Fragment 2] […] of real property (?) [In the time of the founder and saviour] of the city, [Imperator Caesar] Marcus [Antonius Gordianus] Pius Felix [Augustus, and in] the priesthood of the Sun of [Marcus Aurelius] Athanagoras, twice, [by adoption, in the month of] Dalios. […] of Epimachos and however he is styled […] […] […] […] aged about […] […] in accordance (?) […] […] […] fifty denarii. Aurelius Quintus son of Hilaros, using as writer Marcus Aurelius Eirenion also called Dionysios, of Rhodes, because I am illiterate, to Marcus Aurelius Dionysios son of Iason by adoption and to Kallikrates […], greetings. Register (the transaction). Dalios 5. I, Marcus Aurelius Dionysios son of Iason by adoption, […], magistrate and banker of the bank of real property, have registered it. Dalios 5. I, Eutyches, temple-warden of the house of the city, have registered it.

The document was written at Rhodes (using the Rhodian month Dalios and eponymous priest of the Sun) but found at Oxyrhynchus. The term 'enge(i)os trapeza', literally 'bank of landed property', denotes a civic registry bank with no exact English equivalent.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Instructions to a Rhodian Bank about Slave Sale). 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 · 238 - 244 · Rhodos

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