Sale [September 14, 178 AD]
Sale of a female donkey by Horos to Epimachos from Philadelphia
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22265
Sale of a white female donkey by Horos to Epimachos of Philadelphia TM 22265Pitos (Memphites)178 CE
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A contract recording the sale of a white female donkey by Horos son of Saras, of the village of Pitos in the Memphite nome, to Epimachos son of Ploution of Philadelphia, for 230 silver drachmas. It is dated 14 September AD 178, and Horos's acknowledgement was written for him by Lucretius because he was illiterate.
In English machine translation
In the village of Pitos in the Memphite nome. Horos son of Saras, son of […], from the village of Pitos, aged about […] years, with a scar on his right foot, acknowledges to Epimachos son of Ploution, from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, that he, Horos, has sold to Epimachos a female donkey, white in colour, […] […] to the front […] and Horos has received on the spot from Epimachos the agreed and settled price of 230 […] silver drachmas, and Horos guarantees this sale with every guarantee against all and every claimant.
Year 19 of the Emperors Caesars Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus Augusti, Armeniaci, Medici, Parthici, Germanici, Sarmatici Maximi, Thoth 17.
I, Horos son of Saras, my mother being Thaesis, acknowledge that I have sold the aforementioned donkey and have received on the spot the fixed and agreed price of 230 […] silver drachmas, and I will guarantee it with every guarantee. I, Lucretius son of Harpechysis, wrote on his behalf, as he does not know letters.
The price may have included a further sum lost in the gap after 'two hundred thirty'. The description of the donkey's marks is largely lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Sales of Donkeys). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.col.10.264
ἐν κώμῃ Πιτοῦ τοῦ Μεμφίτου νομοῦ ὁμολογεῖ Ὥρος Σαρᾶ τοῦ …[…] ἀπὸ κώμης Πιτοῦ ὡς ἐτῶν[…]οὐλὴ ποδὶ δεξιῷ Ἐπιμάχῳ Πλουτίωνος ἀπὸ Φιλαδελφίας τοῦ Αρσινοίτου νομοῦ πεπρακέναι αὐτὸν Ὥρον τῷ Ἐπιμάχῳ ὄνον θήλειαν λευκόχρουν […] χων εἰς τὸ ἔμπροσθεν […]καὶ αὐτόθεν ἔσχεν ὁ Ὧρος παρὰ τοῦ Ἐπ…