Fragment of a copy of an application to Lucretius Nilus, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from a woman named Demetria acting with her guardian, concerning the purchase of a slave named Plousianos who had belonged to the seller by inheritance from his father. It belongs to a group of registrations of slave sales from Oxyrhynchus, around 26 December 198 AD.
In English machine translation
Copy of sale […]
To Lucretius Nilus, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from Demetria, daughter of […]esis son of […], her mother being Taarmiusis […], from the city of Oxyrhynchus, with her guardian […]nus Kall[…] son of Antonius […]
[…] buying (?) […], son of […]erios, his mother being […]os […], from the same city, his slave inherited from his father, Plousianos […], aged about […] years, this one […]
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The heading abbreviation is taken as 'copy of sale'; most names and the roles of buyer and seller are only partly preserved. A 'patrikos' slave is one inherited from the owner's father.
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 Sales of Slaves). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.