Sale of a nine-year-old slave girl Soteris TM 18109Nilopolis (Herakleopolites?)20. Jan. 225

Year four of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Pius Felix Augustus, month of Tybi, twenty-fifth day, in Neilopolis the metropolis. Aurelius Kephalon son of Semtheus, his mother being Dionysarion, from Neilopolis, about 52 years old, without distinguishing marks, acknowledges that he has sold, in accordance with this agreement, to Aurelius Apion son of Chairas, his mother being Methysion, former gymnasiarch, former high priest of our lords the Augusti, of the same city, from the property that came to him from the inheritance of his full brother Aurelius Kollouthos, a female slave named Soteris, about 9 years old, without distinguishing marks, for the price agreed between them of 1,600 drachmas of silver of the coinage of the Augusti, which Kephalon further acknowledges that he has received on the spot from Apion in full, 1,600 drachmas […] and that he will guarantee this slave Soteris as she is, not returnable, free from epilepsy and external claim. Apion therefore is to own, possess and manage her and deal with her in whatever way he chooses, and Kephalon or anyone else on his behalf shall no longer have the right to proceed against the slave Soteris whom he has sold to Apion, who was examined by the royal scribe of the nome acting as strategos, Aurelius Origenes, on the aforesaid day; but Kephalon himself shall of necessity repel immediately, at his own expense, anyone who proceeds against or lays claim to her or any part of her, guaranteeing the sale with every guarantee. The sale is valid. And in answer to the formal question whether this has been done rightly and properly, Kephalon acknowledged it.