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Sale of two female slaves to the freedwoman Sarapias also called Thaesis TM 21984Oxyrhynchos30. Aug. - 28. Sept. 207

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A contract of sale registered through the record office (agoranomeion) of Oxyrhynchus in AD 207, by which the freedwoman Sarapias also called Thaesis bought two female slaves, one named Aphrodite, owned in equal shares by two sellers acting with guardians. The slaves had earlier been acquired by a deed of year 14, and the sale is made without right of return.

In English machine translation

Year 16 of Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus Maximus and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus, Dios […] Thoth […], at Oxyrhynchus city, through the supervisors of the agoranomeion and […] Sarapias also called Thaesis, freedwoman of […] Paulinius also called Isidios, aged about […] years, with as her guardian […] Heraklides of the Athenaieus (?) tribe and Artemiseios (?) deme, aged about 23, without distinguishing marks, […] Sarapous […] whose mother is Tausorapis, from Oxyrhynchus city, as through […] and […] of the same mother Tausorapis, freedwoman of Thaesis, from the same city, aged about […] […] a scar on the forehead, each of them with a guardian, Sarapous her brother […] whose mother is Tausorapis, from the same city, aged about […] years, and […] […] freedman of Heraklas, from the same city, […] in the street, the two female slaves belonging to them in equal shares, Aphrodite, whose mother is […] […] likewise in equal shares, in accordance with a deed executed through the agoranomeion at Oxyrhynchus city in the past 14th year, in the month Kaisarios, from A[…] […] of Ammonios, from the same city, […] […] one year and five months […] And the buyer has received from the sellers […] these, as they are, not to be returned, except for a claim of seizure (?) […], because Aphrodite has been examined, as is shown through the aforementioned deed […] […] […]

The agoranomeion was the public office that registered contracts such as sales. The phrase 'not to be returned except for epaphe' is a standard clause excluding cancellation of the sale except for a third-party claim on the slaves; 'anakrisis' refers to an official examination of a slave's status.

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 Slaves). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 30. Aug. - 28. Sept. 207 · Oxyrhynchos

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