Public confirmation of the sale of the slave woman Dioskorous TM 20754Oxyrhynchos23. Juni 129

In the thirteenth year of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Pauni 29, in the city of the Oxyrhynchi of the Thebaid. Agathos Daimon also called Dionysios, son of Dionysios son of Dionysios, his mother being Hermione, from the city of the Oxyrhynchi, acknowledges to Gaius Julius Germanus, son of Gaius Julius Domitianus, in the street, that he bears witness, by this agreement which the acknowledging party Agathos Daimon also called Dionysios has made with Julius Germanus, to the private (handwritten) sale, made on the twenty-fifth of the month Tybi of the present thirteenth year, of the female slave belonging to him by purchase, formerly the property of Herakleides also called Theon, son of Machon, of the Sosikosmian tribe and Althaean deme, namely Dioskorous, about 25 years old, without distinguishing marks, whom Julius Germanus has received from him from that time, just as she is, not returnable except for epilepsy (the sacred disease) and seizure (?), for the price of 1,200 silver drachmas, which Agathos Daimon also called Dionysios received from that time from Julius Germanus in full together with the private sale; on the basis of which Julius Germanus paid the tax on sales (enkyklion) for the same slave Dioskorous on the third of the month Phamenoth of the same year, in accordance with the receipt issued to him; the guarantee of the same slave Dioskorous with every guarantee being binding on Agathos Daimon also called Dionysios, as the private sale also contains. And if it should happen that this be lost or in any other way destroyed, Julius Germanus shall not need [...] purchase [...] [...] [... lines lost ...]