Sale of the house-born slave Thonis alias Epagathos TM 16567Oxyrhynchos4. März 212

[…] Year […] of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Parthicus Maximus Britannicus Maximus Pius Augustus, Artemisios-Phamenoth 8, in the city of Oxyrhynchus, before Dorotheon and his colleague, overseers of the agoranomeion. Lucius Valerius Severus alias Melas, aged about 44, with a scar in the middle of the nose, has bought from Statoria Philoxena, aged about 50, with a scar on the wrist of the right hand, acting without a guardian according to the customs of the Romans by the right of children, in the open street, the house-born slave belonging to her, born of the slave Isidora, Thonis alias Epagathos, aged about 19, squint-eyed (?), with a scar on the forehead, who was examined by the strategos of the nome, Didymos, in the present month in accordance with the petitions of examination which the purchaser submitted to him, one copy of which, bearing the subscription of the strategos, the same purchaser has kept with him; and he has on the spot received from Statoria Philoxena this slave Thonis alias Epagathos, such as he is, not subject to return except for epilepsy and legal claim; and the agreed 1,600 drachmas of silver of imperial coinage for the price of the same slave Thonis alias Epagathos Statoria Philoxena has on the spot received in full from the purchaser Severus alias Melas. Statoria Philoxena sells and guarantees the same slave as stated above, in the same street […] […]