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Registration of the sale of the slave Prokopton bought at Bostra TM 16449Oxyrhynchos

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Registration at the Oxyrhynchus record office of the purchase of a slave named Prokopton by Aurelia, daughter of Simon, from Bostra in Syria. It cites the original Greek deed of sale drawn up at Bostra in February of AD 263 (consuls Albinus II and Dexter) and earlier sales, and gives a physical description of the slave.

In English machine translation

Year 12 of Imperator Caesar Publius Licinius ⟨Gallienus⟩ Germanicus Maximus Pius Felix Augustus, Loos (= Pauni), at Oxyrhynchus city, through Aurelius Serenotheon, who holds the contract of the agoranomeion. There registered on the present day Aurelia […]tis, daughter of Simon, from Bostra in Syria, of the tribe An[…], aged about […] […] [whom she declared] through the memorandum she submitted and the handwritten declaration she has made to belong to her(?), having been bought by her(?) by a Greek deed of sale made at Bostra in the consulship of Albinus for the [2nd] time and Dexter, on the Ides of February, from Aurelius […]ergias son of Julianus Maximus, councillor […] of the tribe Rom[…], a slave named Prokopton, […], an Aptian(?), aged about […]2, light-skinned, rather broad-faced, with thin eyebrows, snub-nosed, with scars on the left forehead, eyebrow and cheek, squinting slightly, who had also been bought by Julianus by a sale completed through the public registry in the same city in the same year in the month of Dios from […] son of(?) […]molianus(?), councillor, […] who was of the tribe of Zeus, and […] by sale […] in the city through the public (registry) [from] Septimia E[…]na daughter of Septimius Severus […] […] […] […]

The agoranomeion was the public notarial office where contracts were registered. The pronouns referring to the buyer are masculine in the Greek though the registrant is a woman, so the exact relationship is uncertain in the damaged text.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Registration of Sale of Slave). 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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p.oxy.42.3054

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