Receipt for Sale of Wine on delivery
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 21395
Advance payment for wine to be delivered at the vintage TM 21395Probably Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt6-15 December 622 A.D.
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An acknowledgment by Aurelius Georgios, son of Enoch, from the estate of Great Tarouthinos in the Oxyrhynchite nome, that he has received 6 gold solidi from Theodoros, notary of a noble household of Oxyrhynchus. In return he promises to deliver 550 measures of wine at the coming vintage in Mesore, in effect an advance sale of wine; the document dates to Choiak of an 11th indiction, December 622.
In English machine translation
† In the name of the Lord and Master Jesus Christ, our God and Saviour, in the month of Choiak 1[…], indiction 11.
To the reverend Theodoros, notary of the glorious house, son of the blessed Phoibammon, from the city of the Oxyrhynchites,
Aurelius Georgios son of Enoch, his mother being Eous, from the estate of Great Tarouthinos of the Oxyrhynchite nome.
I acknowledge that I have received from you here and now 6 gold solidi on the private standard, and in return for these I acknowledge that I will give to her (?) 550 sekomata of wine of 5 sextarii each at the vintage of the month of Mesore of the present eleventh indiction, of the yield (?), with God's help, of the twelfth indiction, without delay, being liable for the good quality of the wine […]
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The 'glorious house' is a great landowning household of Oxyrhynchus, probably that of the Apiones. The feminine 'to her' (autei) where 'to you' is expected is apparently a scribal slip.
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.15.743
† ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν μηνὶ Χοίακ ι[…] ἰνδικτίονος ια. τῷ αἰδεσίμῳ Θεοδώρῳ νοταρίῳ τοῦ ἐνδόξου οἴκου υἱῷ τοῦ μακαρίου Φοιβάμμωνος ἀπὸ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως Αὐρήλιος Γεώργιος υἱὸς Ἐνῶχ μητρὸς Ἠοῦτος ἀπὸ κτήματος μεγάλης Ταρουθ…