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A document from Valerius Herakles, an official on the staff of the procurator of the imperial private estate (res privata) in the Thebaid, to Aurelius Apollonios of Oxyrhynchus, concerning Apollonios' purchase of a branded black male donkey from Besas of Panopolis. The latter part, probably dealing with the payment and validity of the sale, is badly damaged.
The res privata (Greek priouata) was the emperor's private estate administration; an officialis was a member of an official's staff. The phrase 'landholding in the Great Hermopolite' grammatically seems to refer to Herakles or his superior, but its exact construction is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Document Relating to the Purchase of a Donkey). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Οὐαλέριος Ἡρακλῆς ὀφφικιάλιος Οὐαλερίου Ποιμενίου ἐπιτρόπου πριουάτης Θηβαΐδος γεουχῶν ἐν τῷ μεγάλῳ Ἑρμοπολίτῃ Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀπολλωνίῳ Σαραπίωνος ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως χαίρειν. ἐπειδὴ τῇ χθὲς ἐώνησαι παρὰ Βησᾶ Ἱέρακος μητρὸς Ταϊέρακος ἀπὸ Πανὸς πόλεως ὄνον …
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