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An order from Sarapion, an appointed overseer, instructing the agoranomos (registry official) at Oxyrhynchus to register the sale of a slave named Ploutos, aged about 32, bought by Didymos from Thermouthion. It dates to year 11 of the emperor Domitian (AD 91-92).
The agoranomos was the official who drew up and registered contracts such as sales. The price combines silver drachmas with a sum in copper talents, a feature of slave sales in this period.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Notice to the Agoranomus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Σαραπίων ὁ καθεστάμενος ἐπιτηρητὴς τῷ ἀγορανόμῳ χαίρειν. καταγράψον ὠνὴν Διδύμῳ Νεοπτολέμου τοῦ Νεοπτολέμου μητρὸς Δημητρίας τῆς Διδύμου τῶν ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως δούλου Πλούτου ὡς ἐτῶν λβ οὗ ἐπρίατο παρὰ Θερμουθίου τῆς Ἀχιλλέως τοῦ Ἀχιλλέως μηρὸς Θαισοῦτος τῆς Δημητρίου τῶν ἀπὸ τ…
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