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Sale of a female donkey and her foal by lessees of estate land TM 19986unbekannt27. Sept. 179

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A sale document in which two lessees of imperial estate land, Eirenaios and Phasis, sell a white female donkey and her female foal to Sotas son of Ptolemaios for 160 silver drachmas, guaranteeing the sale. It is dated 27 September 179 AD, under Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.

In English machine translation

Eirenaios and Phasis, lessees of estate property (ousiaka), to Sotas son of Ptolemaios, greetings. We have sold to you a full-grown white female donkey and her foal, a female, these being as they are, not subject to return, and we have received from you the agreed price in full, 160 drachmas of silver, and we will guarantee (the sale) with every guarantee against any claimant. Year 20 of Aurelii Antoninus and Commodus the lords Augusti, Thoth 29.

The sellers are lessees of ousiaka, former private estates that had become imperial property. The term 'not subject to return' (anaporriphous) means the buyer cannot reject the animals afterwards for defects.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 27. Sept. 179

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