The opening of a contract in which Aurelius Aleides from the village of Mikron Petraiou, with a guarantor whose mother was Rachel, acknowledges receiving a price from Aurelius Tim[…] for a quantity of barley. It comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome and dates to the 4th or 5th century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
In the consulship of Flavii […] and […] the most […]
Aurelius Aleides(?) son of […] mother […] from
Mikron Petraiou, with a guarantor and surety for repayment
of the debt set out below, Aurelius […] son of […]
mother Rachel, from […]
to Aurelius Tim[…] son of […] mother […]
[…] from […] I acknowledge
that I have received from you here the price agreed between us
and satisfactory to me, in full
of barley, […] artabas […]
[verso]
† Document of Aleides with a guarantor […]
Catalogued as a loan contract, but the receipt of an agreed price for barley suggests a sale with deferred delivery. The mother's name Rachel may point to a Jewish or Christian family.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Beginning of a Loan Contract). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.