Sale [24 August, 89 AD]
Notice from Zenon o the agoranomos to register the sale of a house(?) sold for 700 silver drachmas or 52 talents 3,000 drachmas of copper; at the end, a docket
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Order to the agoranomos to register the sale of a house TM 20576Oxyrhynchos89 CE
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An order from Zenon to the agoranomos (market and contracts official) of Oxyrhynchus to register the sale of a house by Athenais also called Tekosis, who had bought it from Heron son of Heliodoros, for 700 silver drachmas. A note records payment of the sales tax in copper on 24 August AD 89.
In English machine translation
Zenon to the agoranomos, greeting. Register the sale by Athenais also called Tekosis, daughter of […], son of Chairemon, of those from the city of Oxyrhynchus, of the […] house belonging to the disposing party in the same city in the quarter of the Broad Street(?), which she bought from Heron son of Heliodoros, son of Herakleios, of those from the same city, at a price of 700 drachmas of silver, 52 talents 3,000 drachmas of copper. Farewell. Year 8 of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, month of Kaisareios, 1st intercalary day.
Zenon: execute (it).
Payment on the 1st of the intercalary days of the sales tax in copper at the rate for silver: 5 talents 1,500 drachmas.
The enkyklion was a tax on sales and transfers of property; the tax paid (5 talents 1,500 drachmas copper) is a tenth of the price. The price is stated both in silver and in its copper equivalent.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sale [24 August, 89 AD]). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.2.333
Ζήνων τῷ ἀγορανόμωι χαίρειν. κατάγραψον ὠνὴν Ἀθηναΐδος τῆς καὶ Τεκώσιος τῆς …ος τοῦ Χαιρήμονος τῶν ἀπ’ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως τῆς ὑπαρχούσης τῷ διατιθεμένῳ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ πόλει ἐπ’ ἀμφόδου Πλατείας …ης οἰκίας … ἧς ἐπρίατο παρὰ Ἥρωνος τοῦ Ἡλιοδώρου τοῦ Ἡρακλείου τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως, τι…