One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21085

Private deed of sale acknowledging receipt of the price TM 21085unbekannt26. Febr. - 26. März 184

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The end of a private deed of sale in which the writer acknowledges receiving the agreed price, with mention of 2,000 silver drachmas given to him and his brother Ptolemaios in place of a mother's dowry. It closes with the standard clause giving the private document the force of a publicly registered one, and is dated in Phamenoth of year 24 of Commodus (AD 184).

In English machine translation

[…]sime and her siblings, 2,000 silver drachmas, which […] to us in place of the dowry of his (?) mother, to me and to my brother Ptolemaios, and that I have received the agreed price. This handwritten agreement shall be valid wherever it is produced, as if it had been registered in a public archive. Year 24 of Aurelius Antoninus Commodus the lord Augustus, Phamenoth […].

A cheirographon was a private handwritten agreement; the closing clause gave it the legal standing of a document registered in a public archive. The beginning is lost, so the object sold and the parties are not fully known.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Deed of Sale). 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.harr.1.146

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 26. Febr. - 26. März 184

π[…]σιμης καὶ τῶν ταύτης συνγόνων ἀργυρίου δραχμῶν δισχιλίων ἣ παραχ[…]ησα ἡμῖν ἀντὶ προικὸς τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ, ἐμοὶ καὶ τῷ ἀδελφῷ Πτολεμαίῳ, καὶ ἀπεσχηκέναι με τὴν συνφωνηθεῖσαν τιμήν. τὸ δὲ χειρόγραφον τοῦτο πάντῃ ἐπιφερέσθω ὡς ἐν δημοσίῳ κατακεχωρισμένον. ἔτους κδ ΑὐρηλίουἈντων…