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 21398
Receipt for advance payment for wine to be delivered TM 21398Probably either Mataei or Oxyrhynchus polis, Oxyrhynchite nome, EgyptAugust 2, 651, 666, 681, etc. A.D.
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
Advance sale of wine from the Oxyrhynchite nome: Senouthes son of Menas, of North Mataeis, acknowledges receiving 2 1/2 gold solidi from Senouthios, a doorkeeper of Oxyrhynchus, and promises to deliver good wine at 50 measures per solidus in the following indiction, guaranteeing its quality until the end of Tybi.
In English machine translation
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† In the name of the Lord and Master Jesus Christ, our God and Saviour.
Mesore 20, indiction 9, beginning with God of the tenth indiction.
I, Senouthes son of Menas, from the village of North Mataeis in the Oxyrhynchite nome, to you Senouthios, doorkeeper, son of the late Stephanos, from the city of the Oxyrhynchites, greetings.
I acknowledge that I have received from you here and now, out of the two and a half solidi: in advance for wine, 1/2 solidus; and at the vintage, 2/3 of a solidus; and […] 1 1/3 solidi; in detail, total 2 1/2 gold solidi, counted. And for these I acknowledge that I shall supply you in wine of good quality, 50 (measures) for each (solidus), during the present […] ninth indiction, with delivery in the tenth indiction, being responsible for the quality of the wine until the end of the month Tybi, you providing […]
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Total: document of Senuthios […]
The document is a receipt framed as a sale on delivery, a common way of giving the producer cash before the harvest. The unit of the 50 measures per solidus is not stated in the surviving text.
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.15.748
[r] † † ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ δεσπότου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Μεσορὴ κ ἰνδικτίονος θ, ἀρχῇ σὺν θεῷ δεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος. ἐγὼ Σενούθης υἱὸς Μηνᾶ ἀπὸ χωρίου Ματάειτος βορρινοῦ τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου νομοῦ σοι Σενουθίῳ προσθυρεῖ υἱῷ τοῦ μακαρίου Στεφάνου ἀπὸ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχ…