Sale of a white donkey at the market of the Upper Kynopolite nome TM 21986Oxyrhynchos bzw. Kynopolites3. Apr. 311

Aurelius Harachthes son of Patetes, his mother being Thermouthis, from the village of Penne in the Herakleopolite nome, to Aurelius Theodoros son of Harpokration, from the illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, greetings. I acknowledge that I have sold and delivered to you at the market of the Upper Kynopolite nome a male donkey, white in colour, having shed its second teeth, for the price of 10 talents and 4,000 drachmas of silver, total 10 talents 4,000 drachmas, which I have also received from you on the spot in full, from hand to hand, the guarantee […] every other guarantee […] for all time and against anyone who will make a claim. The sale, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. In the consulship of our lords Maximianus for the 8th time and Maximinus for the 2nd time, Augusti, Pharmouthi 8. I, Aurelius Harachthes, have sold the donkey and received the price as stated above. I, Aurelius Serenos, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters.