Sale of a House
Beginning of a contract of the sale of a house
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21391
Sale of an inherited house to a weaver at Oxyrhynchus TM 21391Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt430 A.D.
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Beginning of a contract from Oxyrhynchus in AD 430 in which Aurelius Philoxenos, son of Alexander and Theodosia, sells to a weaver, son of Paulos, a house he inherited from his father. The docket on the back identifies it as the sale of a whole house.
In English machine translation
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After the consulship of Flavii Florentius and Dionysius, the most illustrious […]
Aurelius Philoxenos, son of Alexander, his mother being Theodosia, from the splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, […]
son of Paulos, from the same city of the Oxyrhynchites, weaver of tarsikon cloth, greetings. I acknowledge by this agreement that I have sold and conveyed to you, with every fullest right of ownership, from now for all time, the house belonging to me, which also came to me by inheritance from my late father, the aforementioned Alexander, […] of Euxa[…] from […] according to […]
on the terms which it contains […]
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Sale of a whole house […]
A tarsikarios was a weaver of a particular type of fine cloth, perhaps named after Tarsus. Much of the operative clause describing the house is restored from standard formulas.
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 a House). 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.mich.15.730
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