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Sale of a donkey by a man of the Small Oasis TM 21326Oxyrhynchos

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A contract of sale in which Aurelius Hierax from the Small Oasis sells a black-and-white male donkey with a notched ear and white-marked feet to Aurelius Tiron for 4,000 silver drachmas, paid in cash at Oxyrhynchus. The end of the document, with guarantee clauses and date, is lost.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Hierax son of Hierax, a foreigner (?), his mother being Thaesis, from the Small Oasis, to Aurelius Tiron son of Pathotes, his mother being Helene, from the watering-station of Pathotes of the same nome, greetings. I acknowledge that I have sold to you the male donkey belonging to me, in colour white and black, having a notch cut in its ear and white markings on its two feet, docked (?), for the price agreed between us of 4,000 drachmas in silver coin of the Augusti, in full, which price I have received from you from hand to hand in the city of the Oxyrhynchites, so that from now on you may possess and own the donkey sold to you by me and have the right to sell it to others and to manage and deal with it in whatever way you choose […] […] […] […]

The word allophylos, literally 'of another tribe', is unusual in a seller's identification; kolobos may mean the donkey had a docked tail or ear. The style 'Aurelius' and the price suggest a date in the later 3rd century AD.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sale of Donkey). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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

αὐρήλιος Ἱέραξ Ἱέρακος ἀλλόφυλος μητρὸς Θαήσιος ἀπὸ τῆς μικρᾶς Ὀάσεως Αὐρηλίῳ Τίρωνι Παθώτου μητρὸς Ἑλένης ἀπὸ ὑδρεύματος Παθώτου τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ πεπρακέναι σοι τὸν ὑπάρχοντά μοι ὄνον ἄρρενα χρώματι λευκομέλανα ἔχοντα ἐν τῷ ὠτίῳ κόμμα κεκομμένον καὶ ἐν τοῖς δυσὶ …