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Sale of the house-born slave woman Demetrous TM 16897Euergetis (Kynopolites)31. Jan. 51

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Beginning of a contract recording the sale of a house-born slave woman named Demetrous, about 25 years old, by Metrophanes son of Heras of Taamechis to Pasion son of Harthonis of Oxyrhynchus. It was drawn up before the agoranomos Harbeus at Euergetis on 31 January AD 51; the rest of the document is lost.

In English machine translation

In the eleventh year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Mecheir sixth, an Augustan day, at Euergetis above Memphis, before the agoranomos Harbeus. Pasion son of Harthonis, of those from the city of Oxyrhynchus in the Thebaid, about 52 years old, of medium height, honey-coloured complexion, long-faced, with a scar on the left wrist, has bought from Metrophanes son of Heras, of those from the village of Taamechis in the Koite of the Herakleopolite nome above Memphis, about 58 years old, of medium height, honey-coloured complexion, long-faced, with a scar on the left forearm, in the street (?) Euormos, the slave woman born in his household, whom Metrophanes said belonged to him, named Demetrous, about 25 years old, of medium height, honey-coloured complexion, […]

The agoranomos was a public notary who registered contracts such as sales; the physical descriptions of the parties served to identify them. The phrase 'en agyiai Euormoi' is unclear and may name a street or quarter.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.31.2582

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 31. Jan. 51 · Euergetis (Kynopolites)

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