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Fragment of a contract of sale in which a resident of the village of Memnonia in the Hermonthite nome sells a house he owns in the same village to another villager for two gold solidi. It is dated by the consulship of Volusianus to the month Hathyr, AD 503.
The 'nomismatia' are gold solidi, the standard coin of the period. The text breaks off before the warranty clauses and signatures.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract 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.
[…]… Βολουσιανοῦ τῶν λαμπροτάτων, Ἁθὺρ[…] […]μ ἀπὸ κώμης Μεμνονίων τοῦ Ἑρμωνθίτου νομοῦ[…] […]ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ[…] […]… καταγεγραφηκέναι σοι …[…] […]τὴν ὑπάρχουσάν μοι οἰκίαν ἐπὶ λαύρας[…] […]τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης ἐλθοῦσαν εἰς ἐμὲ […] […]γείτονες τῆς ὅλης οἰκίας νότου…
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