Receipt for the Price of Wine
Receipt for the price of wine to be delivered later, providing the farmer with the money he needs for bringing the crop in; the text is phrased as a sale of wine on delivery
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21394
Receipt for the price of wine for later delivery TM 21394Perhaps Megalou Moucheos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt572 A.D., between August 29 A.D. November 14
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A receipt, phrased as an advance sale of wine, in which two villagers from the hamlet of Megalou Moucheos, with a guarantor, acknowledge receiving from Aurelius Papnouthios the price of 107 measures of wine to be delivered later. It dates to the reign of Justin II, AD 572, in the Oxyrhynchite (here called Justinoupolite) nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
† In the reign of our most divine and most pious master, the greatest benefactor, Flavius Justinus the eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 7, indiction 6.
Aurelii Phib son of Phoibammon [and of …]s, mother Aeous, and Ap son of […]eos, mother Sara, originating from the hamlet of Megalou Moucheos of the Justinoupolite nome, with a guarantor […]aitios son of Pseeios from the same hamlet, to Aurelius Papnouthios from […] of the same nome, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from you in full the price agreed upon between us now for 107 measures of wine of 8 sextarii each, total wine 107 measures of 8 sextarii, which wine […]
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[verso]
† Document of Phib son of Phoibammon and Ap […]
Such advance payments gave the farmer cash before the harvest, with the wine delivered later. The Oxyrhynchite nome was briefly renamed Justinoupolite in this period.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for the Price of Wine). 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.15.734
[r] † βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουίου Ἰουστίνου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους ζ ἰνδικτίονος ϛ. Αὐρήλιοι Φὶβ υἱὸς Φοιβάμμωνος […]ς μητρὸς Ἀηοῦτος καὶ Ἀπ υἱὸς […]έου μητρὸς Σάρας ὁρμώμενοι ἀπὸ ἐποικίου μεγάλου Μούχεω…