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Advance sale of wine with surety, from Tanameu in the Hermopolite nome TM 16143Hermopolis12. Okt. 606

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A contract from Hermopolis dated 12 October 606, in which the vinedresser Aurelius Taurinos of the hamlet of Tanameu acknowledges receiving advance payment for wine from a man of Hermopolis, to be delivered as new wine in Mesore of the following indiction. Aurelius Petros son of Paulos stands surety for him, and spoiled wine is to be replaced.

In English machine translation

[recto] † In the name of the holy and life-giving Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, in the reign of our most divine master Flavius Phocas, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 4, Phaophi 15, of the 10th indiction. † Aurelius Taurinos son of […] […]alotos, his mother being Thekla, vinedresser from the hamlet of Tanameu in the Hermopolite nome, through me who stand surety for him and undertake responsibility for the payment of the […] at my own risk and with the resources of my property, † Aurelius Petros son of Paulos, his mother being Agnoia, from the […] […] to […] son of Phoibammon, from the city of the Hermopolites, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received and been paid in full by you the complete and proper price of 240 (?) […] measures of wine […], total 24… (?) measures of wine, which I will deliver to you in the month of Mesore of the 11th indiction, God willing, in very fine and satisfactory new wine, by the measure of the […] administrator; and if any of it should be found to be vinegar or badly made or sour up to the month of Tybi of the same indiction, I agree to exchange it for you without delay […] […] [verso] Written agreement for 24… measures of wine […]

The quantity of wine is partly lost and the figures in the body and the summary line do not clearly agree. Such advance-payment sales were effectively credit arrangements for the producer.

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 Wein gegen Vorauszahlung mit Bürgschaft). 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 · 12. Okt. 606 · Hermopolis

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