One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20579

Authorization to register a sale, with a woman acting through her father as guardian TM 20579Oxyrhynchos19. Apr. 89

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Fragmentary end of a document from Oxyrhynchus, apparently an authorization for registering a sale, in which a woman acting with her father Kastor son of Herakleides as guardian is involved in a transaction priced at 300 silver drachmas plus 22 talents of copper. It is dated 19 April AD 89 and closes with an order to Dionysios to register it.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] […] […] […] […] of the city, with her guardian, her father Kastor son of Herakleides, of the same city, for the price of 300 silver drachmas and 22 talents 3,000 (?) of copper. Farewell. Year 8 of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, Pharmouthi 24. Dionysios, register it.

The closing order 'register it' (anagrapson) suggests an instruction to a record office (agoranomeion) to draw up a sale contract. The copper sum's final figure (Γ, read as 3,000 drachmas) is uncertain.

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.

p.oxy.2.337

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 19. Apr. 89 · Oxyrhynchos

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…]…[…] […]…[…]… πόλεως μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ πατρὸς Κάστορος τοῦ Ἡρακλείδου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως τιμῆς ἀργυρίου δραχμῶν τ χαλκοῦ ταλάντων κβ Γ. ἔρρωσο. ἔτους η Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Δομιτιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ, Φαρμουθι κδ. Διονύσιος ἀνάγραψον.