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Advance sale of 200 measures of wine TM 17643Oxyrhynchites524 - 525

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A contract for the advance sale of wine from the Oxyrhynchite nome, AD 524-525. The seller acknowledges receipt of the full price and undertakes to deliver 200 measures of wine from a named estate at the vintage in Mesore, with the buyer supplying the jars, and guarantees its quality for a set period.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] greetings. I acknowledge that I have received [from you here and now] the price agreed between us [and satisfactory to me], in full, for wine […] of five-sextarius [measures, from the] same estate, 200 sekomata, [total] 200 sekomata of wine, which wine at the vat [from unadulterated must], you providing the empty jars, [I will of necessity] deliver to you at the vintage of the month of Me[sore] [of the present] year 201/170 of the third indiction, wine of the outflow of the, God willing, fourth [indiction], [without delay. I guarantee the] [quality and keeping of the wine until the end] [of the month of Tybi …] [… lines lost …]

The year '201/170' refers to the Oxyrhynchite double era. A sekoma is a liquid measure, here of five sextarii (xestai).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lieferungskauf über Wein). 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 · 524 - 525 · Oxyrhynchites

[… ? lines lost …] […]χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι παρὰ σοῦ ἐντεῦθεν τὴν πρὸς ἀλλήλουςσυμπεφωνημένην καὶ ἀρέσασάν μοι τιμὴν πλήρης οἴνου …ου πενταξεστιαίων, ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ κτήματος σηκωμάτων διακοσίων, γίνεται οἴνου σηκώματα σ, ὅνπερ οἶνον παρὰ ληνὸν ἀπὸ γλεύκους ἀδόλου σου παρέχοντο…