Advance sale of new wine to the monastery of Abba Apollos TM 15491Hermopolites1. Febr. 537

A contract in which Aurelius […]nes son of Bekios acknowledges receiving payment in advance from Serenos, archimandrite of the monastery of Abba Apollos near Titkois, for several hundred and fifty jars (knidia) of new wine, to be delivered at the next vintage in Mesore. It was drawn up in the Hermopolite nome on 1 February 537.

In English machine translation

A knidion was a standard wine jar used as a unit of measure; the exact hundreds figure of the quantity is lost. Payment in advance for future delivery was a common form of credit in late antique Egypt.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Verkauf von Wein gegen Vorauszahlung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.