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Advance sale of dry hay by two villagers of Phbu to a riparius TM 16134Hermopolis

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Contract of sale with advance payment: two villagers from Phbu in the Hermopolite nome, Apollos and Victor, acknowledge receiving the price of dry hay from a riparius (police official) of Hermopolis and undertake to deliver it in the next (ninth) indiction, or else repay in gold solidi. Dated Mecheir 2 of an 8th indiction, after the consulship of Flavius Basilius.

In English machine translation

[recto] After the consulship of Flavius Basilius […], Mecheir 2, 8th indiction. The Aurelii Apollos son of Taurinos, mother Maria, and Victor son of Ioannes, mother […]ke, both originating from the village of Phbu in the Hermopolite nome, […] to the respected riparius, son of Ioannes of illustrious memory, from the city of the Hermopolitans, greetings. We acknowledge, being mutual sureties and guarantors for each other, that we have received and been paid in full by your admirableness the full and fair price agreed between us for dry kolobophyes hay […] … […] total of dry hay […]. We will deliver the dry hay to your excellence in the month of […] of the coming, God willing, ninth indiction, in good and satisfactory dry kolobophyes hay […] without any delay or dispute or judgment or lawsuit; and if the time passes and we do not deliver the same hay to you, we are ready to provide you, for the price of the hay, gold solidi […] less twelve carats […] without delay, all our property, present and future, being pledged to you for this document, specifically and generally, as if by a court judgment. The document is valid and secure, and having been asked the formal question we gave our assent. † We, the Aurelii Apollos son of Taurinos and Victor son of Ioannes, the aforesaid, have made this document as mutual sureties as stated above. I, Aurelius Kollouthos son of Ioannes […], having been asked, wrote for them since they do not know letters. […] son of Horouonchios(?), subdeacon, I witness […] […] [verso] […] and Victor son of Ioannes … […] dry kolobophyes(?) [hay] […]

"Kolobophyes" describes a kind of short-growing hay with no exact English equivalent. A riparius was a local police official 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 Kauf von Heu 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.

bgu.12.2198

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Hermopolis

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